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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week

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Does reading do us any good?

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Courage vs. excuses

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An Ancient Philosophical Song Reconstructed and Played for the First Time in 1,000 Years

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Wilderness, Solitude, and Creativity: Artist and Philosopher Rockwell Kent’s Century-Old Meditations on Art and Life During Seven Months on a Small Alaskan Island

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The Invention of Empathy: Rilke, Rodin, and the Art of “Inseeing”

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Oliver Sacks on Gratitude, the Measure of Living, and the Dignity of Dying

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Leaving Neverland director Dan Reed on the Michael...

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Twin Peaks × LCD Soundsystem: a video mashup of Dance...

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Art Movements: Meet the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s New Director

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ProPublica explores what a future without vaccines would...

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Hyperallergic’s Guide to the 2026 Venice Biennale

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The earliest-known recordings of whale songs (from 1949)...

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Image of Family Torn by ICE Wins World Press Photo of the Year

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Ides Kihlen, Abstract Painter and Argentine Art Legend, Dies at 108

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Required Reading

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The Hardy Men

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Eye Contact With a Humpback Whale

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Parallax(e): Perspectives on the Canada–US Border

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Contrast Reigns in Austn Fischer’s Conspicuous Black-and-White Photos

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What Happens When a Globalized World Collapses: Archaeologist Eric Cline Explains How Bronze Age Civilizations Adapted, Survived or Vanished

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Venice Biennale Awards Jury Won’t Consider Russia and Israel

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Worried About Teens Today? So Were Adults in the 1920s....

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Peak Cherry Blossoms

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Azerbaijan Destroys Armenian Holy Mother of God Church in Artsakh

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If you want to surf elsewhere in the galaxy, it...

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Water Samples from Around the World Melt into Dima Rebus’ Dreamy Paintings

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Marianne Moore on the Three Elements of Persuasive Writing

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Traitors to the Project of Patriarchy

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I love the chutzpah of this: all 35 of...

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Into the Right-Wing Dreamworld

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Thousands of Strips of Silk Undulate in Kenny Nguyen’s ‘Deconstructed Paintings’

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Life invisible

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Can Art Feel?

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No nature without fear

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Consumers outnumber producers

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Hear Classical Music Composed by Friedrich Nietzsche

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Tale of a Riderless Horse

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“I believe in an old-fashioned virtue called Doing...

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Hans Holbein Painted the Human

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This Ping Pong Robot Can Beat Elite Human Players

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My Absolutely Chaotic Adventures at Sea During the Summer of 1984

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I had somehow missed (or forgotten) that Greta Gerwig is...

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Remembering Desmond Morris, James Hayward, and Flo Oy Wong

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Can an Artwork Have Personhood?

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Historic $116M Gift Endows Lending Program at National Gallery of Art

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