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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week

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Life on a hair trigger

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Modern vanity

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The best multi day hikes in the world. “As an avid hiker,...

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Cyra Levenson to Lead Yaddo Artist Residency

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Artists Honor Immigrants in Monuments Across New Jersey

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Lobster is Lobster: a language guessing game. “Lobster is...

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Fall of Freedom Returns With Hundreds of Anti-Trump Art Actions

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Fall of Freedom Returns With Hundreds of Anti-Authoritarian Art Actions

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The Overlooked Black Architect Who Shaped a Landmark Smithsonian Museum

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Ooh, Mestra is a new short story from Madeline Miller...

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The Work

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How to Say “YES” to Life

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Map of the Lighthouses of the World

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Rebecca Ness Stakes Her Claim to Art History

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Opportunities in October 2026

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Looks like Every Frame a Painting is ramping up again!...

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Alice Neel’s McCarthy-Era Trial Drawings Go to Auction

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New Book Chronicles Studio Museum in Harlem's 58-Year History

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At IFPDA’s October Prints & Drawings Month, Museums Are Quietly Rethinking Where Works on Paper Belong

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How to Make Perfect Soft-Scrambled Eggs

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World of WearableArt’s ‘GLO!’ Is a Celebration of Culture, Nature, and Whimsy

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Amazon is releasing some new Kindle models, including a...

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Richard Dawkins on the Luckiness of Death

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Journalist Evan Gershkovich: My 491 Days as Putin’s Political Prisoner

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A raw, revealing interview with an 80-year-old Sylvester...

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A 15-minute tour of former NFL coach Mike Tomlin’s...

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In Chicago, teamLab Expands Our Perceptions Through Boundary-Breaking Installations

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I Lost Myself When I Lost Hong Kong

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Green tree ants are famous in the tropics

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The Art Tarot Predicts a Fateful Fall

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Reason is more than a tool

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A Place Among the Fiddlers

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Media and messages

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When Buckminster Fuller Proposed Putting a Dome Over Manhattan (1960)

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LEGO Lets You Build Gaudí’s Sagrada Família in Its Largest Set Ever

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James Baldwin’s Advice on Writing

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You can destroy kottke.org if you want. Or any other site!

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Ominous Thunderstorm Rolling Across the Fields

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Eternal Family is a media service that shows “a...

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Blackbird Spyplane’s Jonah Weiner on his past career as a...

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Milwaukee Art Museum Returns Two Jars to David Drake’s Descendants

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A Vision of Rebirth, Raw and Sumptuous

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“There are more self-storage facilities in the U.S. than...

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Hockey Dads and Hockey Sons

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Paint Isn’t Just Paint at the New York Studio School

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A New Exhibition Explores Edmonia Lewis’s Montana Connection

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Remembering Rafael Ferrer, Aracy Amaral, and Liang Shaoji

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The “Insane” Cinematography of Pride and Prejudice

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What Happens When We Die

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