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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week

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Should we edit nature?

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Nails, glues and screws

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Fernando Pessoa on Unselfing into Who You Really Are

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For more than a century in the 18th & 19th centuries, an...

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A four-year-old mystery finally solved: who was the awkwardly tall stranger at...

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A New Digital Map Charts Queens’s Arts and Culture Landscape

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ChatGPT Is Blowing Up Marriages as Spouses Use AI to Attack Their Partners

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Engineering Lego Cars to Climb Increasingly Tall Walls

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The New York Film Festival Dives Into the Art Scene

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Home City, USA

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From Eater, a list of the 38 most essential & influential US...

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Alice Austen’s Sapphic Siren Song

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Bryan Sansivero Documents Otherworldly, Forgotten Houses in ‘America the Abandoned’

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New Reports Expose the Global Toll of Censorship

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London’s National Gallery to Open New Wing

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How to Be a Good Literary Citizen (in Seven Easy Steps). “The...

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A Warts-and-All Biography of the Man Behind the Barnes Collection

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Required Reading

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The Black Hole That Could Rewrite Cosmology. Astronomers may have found a...

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A View From the Easel

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Former NBA star Reggie Miller’s neighbors got him hooked on mountain biking....

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Pratt Manhattan Gallery Celebrates the Legacy of W.E.B. Du Bois

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Institut Valencià d’Art Modern Begins New Phase Based on Sustainability, Heritage, and Territory

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The Music of the Everyday

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Zackery Died After Climbing on Top of a Subway Train. Who Is to Blame?

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Frankenstein’s Sheep

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Zadie Smith: “In my experience, every kind of writing requires some kind...

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The Hummingbird Bike

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New issue of Laura Olin’s newsletter, full of good stuff. “I had...

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Frédéric Demeuse’s Photos Foreground the Essential Beauty of Ancient Forests

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Two Slice is a bitmappy font that’s only two pixels tall and...

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Fantastic essay by Roxane Gay: Civility Is a Fantasy. “Calling for civility...

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