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Jun 12
In this week's Top 5:
* Quiet, please @NewYorker
* An ode to art @nybooks
* The value of vultures @washingtonpost
* The Big Ea(t)sy @oxfordamerican
* A marginal conversation @yalereview
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Jun 12
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Jun 11
“Travel has the capacity to crack us wide open, and it’s the same with sorrow—so a confluence of the two can lead to really profound breakthroughs.”
"The Best Women's Travel Writing" editor Lavinia Spalding on grief, levity, and the travel stories she hopes to read more of in the future: longreads.com/2026/06/11/wom…
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Jun 11
“I see how stories suffer when a writer attempts to fit the play-by-play of an entire experience into a few thousand words.”
@LaviniaSpalding, editor of "The Best Women's Travel Writing," shares what editing the series has taught her:
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Jun 10
Friction: A Reading List on Why Inconvenience Can Be Meaningful longreads.com/2026/06/09/fri… via @longreads
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"Even the parts that seemed nearly finished didn’t match the rest. Names of characters keep changing. Scene 9, at the end, is sometimes called Scene 1." Jesse Green, chief critic for @nytimestheater @nytimes, on recovering an evasive masterpiece nytimes.com/2026/05/27/theat…
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Jun 10
"Without getting too nostalgic about it, these readings will make you revisit the forgotten, sometimes wonderful feelings that go with friction."
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Jun 10
"I asked them if they did this kind of thing often. First time, they said, and pointed out that this study only recruited first-timers. Your body’s data was only valuable once." —@mca11imanopulos for @nplusonemag nplusonemag.com/online-only/…
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Jun 9
"The limits of human reality have always been human perception." Read @the_jennitaur on strategies for perception beyond human limits, and what we stand to learn
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Jun 9
"If he spots someone chewing gum in a car next to him during his commute, he stares straight ahead."
Sloane Crosley for @NewYorker: newyorker.com/magazine/2026/…
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Jun 9
"Yet while many members of the climbing community condemned the Evermores, the world of non-climbers could not stop celebrating." —Sam MacIlwaine for @ClimbingMag #longreads
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Jun 8
"Britain has only around 60,000 thatched homes left — 0.2 percent of its housing stock. But among England’s roughly 800 thatchers, the reed-versus-straw debate provokes enormous emotion and occasional fisticuffs."
@rcallimachi for @nytimes: nytimes.com/2026/06/03/reale…
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Jun 8
"As Louisiana disappears, a vast amount of water should become public property, open to fishermen—but, officially, it’s not." —Carlyle Calhoun for Southlands Magazine southlandsmag.com/losing-par…
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Jun 5
Our Top 5:
· Reign makers, @harpers
· Board brothers, @nytimes
· Filling blanks, @TheAmScho
· War games, @nybooks
· Field dreams, @FastCompany
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Jun 4
"Not all human experiences are subject to progress." —Zadie Smith for @nybooks nybooks.com/articles/2026/06…
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Jun 4
"The McCanns vanished, as did Sally and Steve. It wasn’t that hard; they were living in the golden age of fugitives."
Read an excerpt from the new @atavist story by Barry Meier: longreads.com/2026/06/04/coc…
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Jun 4
"But expertise only gets you so far in ballooning. Everyone, from the freshest-
faced rookie to the most experienced veteran, is at the mercy of the elements." —Katy Vine and Meher Yeda for @TexasMonthly #longreads
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Jun 3
"I don’t know at what point performing for friends and rooting for your team falls over the edge into something darker." —@lyzl for @rollingstone rollingstone.com/culture/cul…
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Jun 2
"'Well, we’re dated!' the wife complains to her husband. 'That abstractionist next door built his house in space-time.'"
Gabriele Neri for @mitpress: thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/t…
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Jun 2
"More familiarity just brings more questions—the birds become more mysterious, not less." Read a new essay from @the_jennitaur about soft eyes, deep listening, and other ways to strengthen how we perceive.
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