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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week

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Resist the technocrats

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“That doesn’t work”

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Why Mapmakers Put Fake Towns on Their Maps in the 1920s — and the One That Became Real

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Blackie & Co.: A Blackbird’s Lesson in Friendship

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No One You Love Is Ever Dead: Hemingway on the Most Devastating of Losses and the Meaning of Life

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The Onion: Translator Of Original ‘Minions’ Epic Poem...

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Simone Forti, Artist of Movement and Chance, Dies at 91

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What Are the Most Untouchable Records in Sports?

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The Log from the Sea of Cortez: John Steinbeck’s Forgotten Masterpiece on How to Think and the Art of Seeing the Pattern Beyond the Particular

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Trump Regilds DC Statues Mar-a-Lago Style

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A Telegram Arrived — And I Had to Choose Between My Head...

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Why Did Rembrandt Die Poor?

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“ A new Airbus passenger jet completed an...

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The Drawing Room With Mo Welch

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Meet Britain’s Hikikomori

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Todd Caissie Takes the Helm at the Montclair Art Museum

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Required Reading

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The Beauty of Doing Nothing Together . “What...

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Trump’s Border Expansion Threatens 6,000-Year-Old Cave Paintings

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Lifelike Birds Emerge from Foliage in Painted Paper Reliefs by The Paper Ark

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What Is It Like to Be a Cucumber?

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Zac Henderson Venerates Devils Tower in Bold Black-and-White Photos

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The Hell Mouth

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Israel Incensed as UNESCO Adds Lebanese and West Bank Sites to World Heritage List

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A Heron, a Red Leaf, and a Hole in a Blue Star: Poet Jane Kenyon on the Art of Letting Go

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This, Too, Shall Pass

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The legacy of the Luddite movement changes when you zoom...

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Janice Yang’s Symbol-Rich Paintings Conjure Dreams and the Desire for Home

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The trailer for Wicker (starring Olivia Colman,...

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The coffee shop where 162 regulars have their own mug...

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“Protected by Ghost Town”

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Mud below, sun above

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How to Get Canceled in the Art World

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You and Me and QVC

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How art invented humanity

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Organizations that need you

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A Guide to Every Major Film Adaptation of Homer’s Odyssey Before Christopher Nolan’s Movie

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The Visionary Mystical Art of Carl Jung: See Illustrated Pages from The Red Book

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Games People Play: The Revolutionary 1964 Model of Human Relationships That Changed How We (Mis)Understand Ourselves and Each Other

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August 2026 Opportunities: Open Calls, Residencies, and Grants for Artists

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It’s Cool to Be Weird

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In the Age of AI, the Analog Restaurant Feels Radical

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Madrid Museum Puts Picasso in Dialogue With "African Guernica"

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Walmart is busy building out their fast EV charger...

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Sexual Assault Allegations Get Artists Canceled More Than Murder, Study Finds

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The Shakers Weren’t Minimalists

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Remembering Betelhem Makonnen, Betye Saar, and Keith A. Morrison

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The Third Self: Mary Oliver on Creativity and Time

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A terrarium iPhone case that houses actual growing...

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