"How China’s short dramas are redefining entertainment."
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• Cheri Lucas Rowlands
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• Brendan Fitzgerald
The Florida Alligator Dragnet
"When an alligator kills someone in America, it can make international headlines. What happens to the thousands of gators that people deem 'nuisances' does not."
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• Carolyn Wells
The Prom Went On in Kyiv, but Masha’s Date Danced Alone
"Masha Polska, 15, was an avid dancer who had been dreaming of a star turn in the group waltz. That was not to be."
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• Krista Stevens
The True Story of Laura Ingalls Is Wilder than Little House on the Prairie
"Netflix’s new adaptation of the beloved book series will probably leave out some of the most fascinating details from the author’s life—from Pa Ingalls’s ineptitude to the serial killers that stalked Kansas during her childhood."
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• Seyward Darby
The Back Meets the Nose
"It felt like a stabbing. It felt like a burning. It felt like a dull ache, then a sharp one, then it radiated all the way down."
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The Longreads Questionnaire, Featuring Elisa Gabbert
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• Seyward Darby
The Healing Power of Watching the Boys of ‘Jackass’ Do Incredibly Stupid Things
"Johnny Knoxville and his band of merry pranksters got me through one of the worst weeks of my life."
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• Brendan Fitzgerald
Why Is Florida Executing So Many Prisoners?
"In most of the country, executions are a thing of the past. But one state has been carrying them out at a record pace."
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• Krista Stevens
What Science Knows About Grief
"After my husband’s death, I had never been more pliable, tender, open, or raw. It was then that I tried E.M.D.R. therapy."
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• Seyward Darby
Semiquincentennial Blues
"I am yearning to reject something that is not even being sold to me."
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• Angelica Calabrese
My Almond Archive
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• Cheri Lucas Rowlands
America’s Greatest Hot Dog
"The price and quality of the $1.50 Costco frank haven’t budged in 40 years. It’s the last—and best—deal in the country."
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• Carolyn Wells
How I Bought a Private Jet by Selling $10 Subscriptions to 404 Media
"My journey inside the world of LARPing, where hustlebros pretend to be rich for TikTok."
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• Brendan Fitzgerald
A Young Magician Wanted to Build an Epic Magic Collection. Did He Go Too Far?
"Rory Feldman was accused of deceiving, defrauding, and stealing. But he says he’s been the target of a relentless smear campaign by a 'magic mafia.'"
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• Brendan Fitzgerald
Inside the Food Truck Mafia Wreaking Havoc Around the National Mall
"Turf wars. Food and fire hazards. $15 ice-cream cones. How an organized network of unlicensed food trucks took over America's Front Lawn."
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• Carolyn Wells
Paradise Revisited
"What Darwin saw in the Galápagos."
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• Carolyn Wells
The Brits Panning for Gold
"In remote rivers, prospectors still hunt for treasure .They even hold tournaments."
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• Cheri Lucas Rowlands
How Mexico’s World Cup Run Brought a Small Oregon Town to Life
Roberto José Andrade Franco | ESPN | June 30, 2026 | 5,652 words
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• Brendan Fitzgerald
One Last Run
"A dispatch from the final Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, where the drinks were good, and the nature documentaries were, for the most part, sad."
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• Kanya Kanchana
Constructions, Concoctions, Conjurations: A Reading List on the Curious World of Conlangs
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• Peter Rubin
Tom Colicchio’s Final Service
"Through hosting two decades of Top Chef, writing four books, and opening restaurants across the country, the celebrity chef never stopped showing up to cook in the kitchen of Craft, his pioneering New York restaurant. Until he decided to close it."
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• Brendan Fitzgerald
“That Guy is Still Out There”
"Five years after Anthony Broadwater was belatedly cleared for the sexual assault of Alice Sebold, the questions of how he came to be wrongly convicted and how one or more serial rapists operated for years with little consequence have only deepened."
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• Carolyn Wells
The Tick That Hunts Down Its Hosts—Including Us
"Lone-star ticks don’t just pursue and bite people. The affliction they’re spreading, an allergy to red meat known as alpha-gal syndrome, attacks a way of life."
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• Cheri Lucas Rowlands
My Midlife Crisis Corolla Is Fast, Furious, and Fully Modded
"Forget Vin Diesel. Asian Americans are the heroes of import car culture."
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• Brendan Fitzgerald
The Clip Stage
"The clip is something like the primary episteme of the World Cup, for the simple reason that there is too much soccer."
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• Peter Rubin
On Description
"If a depiction only distinguishes one thing from another, what else is lost?"
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• Cheri Lucas Rowlands
Are Crows Really Our Friends?
"An investigation into the state of corvid–human relations."
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• Lisa Bubert
Daylight Savings Time: A (Beach) Reading List for the Lighthearted
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• Cheri Lucas Rowlands
My Father Wants to Age in Place. AI Will Be Watching
"Devices that monitor seniors for safety are appealing to worried loved ones and underresourced home care agencies."
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• Seyward Darby
Diabolical Motherhood
"How do you explain to someone who can’t get pregnant how powerful the omnipresent specter of pregnancy is? How the hyper-awareness of other people’s expectant entitlement toward your body dogs you through every day of your life?"