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The fog of hunger

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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week

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Assume misunderstanding

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Why Americans Stopped Reading Books

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How to Bear Your Desolations

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“ The principal aim of President Trump’s second...

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The Resilience of Uncertainty: How to Hold the Universe in You

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How Do You Know That You Love Somebody? Philosopher Martha Nussbaum’s Incompleteness Theorem of the Heart’s Truth, from Plato to Proust

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National Pavilions We Loved at the Venice Biennale

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Weird Al Yankovic’s Tiny Desk Concert

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Anil Dash built a standalone Touch ID sensor to use...

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Six Epic Artworks Inspired by “The Odyssey”

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Beer With a Painter: Rina Banerjee

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Heatwaves in France Damage Beloved Flowers at Monet’s Gardens

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Analysts Warn U.S. Economy Becoming Overly Dependent On...

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Wolf Kahn Foundation Opens New Space in NYC

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Where’s the Beef?

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‘Stories in the Seams’ Showcases the Enduring Legacy of Black Quilts Across Centuries

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When you take screenshots of posts in iOS social apps...

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“Radiant Geometries" Opens at Rice University's Moody Center for the Arts

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Where Love Goes When It Goes

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Bad Cards

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“All our neighbors worked for those firms —...

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Sift Through Grace Baldwin’s Giant Junk Drawer Filled with Nostalgia

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Long past time to quit X . “Those who continue to...

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How Anti-ICE Protesters Became Prisoners in Trump’s War on Antifa

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A vocabulary for the future: touch

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A Progressive Win for Artists in Florida

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The Longreads Questionnaire, Featuring Jaya Saxena

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Dolphins and other lovers

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Exponential

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Discover the Mundaneum, an Early 20th-Century “Internet” That Put the World’s Knowledge on Millions of Index Cards

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A 1932 Illustrated Map of Harlem’s Night Clubs: From the Cotton Club to the Savoy Ballroom

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How to Bear Your Loneliness

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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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Speed Art Museum Returns 24 Native Artifacts to Oklahoma Tribes

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Damien Hoar de Galvan Puzzles Scraps of Reclaimed Wood for a Daily Sculpture Project

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How to Hold Death and Carry Life: A Zen Master Explains Existence to a Child and Outlines the Three Essential Principles of Zen Mind

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Remembering Bou Meng, Mary Heilmann, and Kumantjayi (Walala) Tjapaltjarri

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Haroutiun Galentz’s True Colors

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Angie Nixon, Champion of Black Art and Culture, Wins Florida Senate Primary in Upset

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Four Shortlisted Artists Stand to Win the Winston Taylor Photo Portrait Prize 2026

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Funding International Dialogue: The Asian Cultural Council Opens 2027 Global Grant Cycle

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MIT Students Can Now Borrow Works by Jennie C. Jones and Nayland Blake

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Brussels’ Grand-Place Is Carpeted with 750,000 Fresh Dahlias in a Tribute to Hokusai

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How a Cowboy Rides When the Range is on Fire

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The conscience files

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The Kristi Noem Statue Nobody Asked For

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Don’t steal the revelation

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The Complete History of the Beatles as Told By Conan O’Brien

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