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‘How Do You Reduce a National Dish to a Powder?’: The Weird, Secretive World of Crisp Flavors

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The Many Garlics of My Childhood

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Best of 2023: Reported Essays

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How to Build a Better Motivational Speaker

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Their Bodies Were Donated to Harvard. Then They Went Missing

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Christmas on the Moon

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When I Met the Pope

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One Swedish Zoo, Seven Escaped Chimpanzees

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The Silence Is the Loudest Part of ‘Renaissance: A Film’

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Best of 2023: Personal Essays

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A Mourner’s Thesaurus

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After the Hit-and-Run

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Song of the Scientist

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The G.O.A.T of Landscape Management? Goats.

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Death of a (Really Good) Salesman

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‘What Kind of Man Would Abandon His Family By Pretending To Be Dead?’

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For Decades, a Florida Woman Had No Sense of Smell. Can She Get It Back?

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‘A Mass Assassination Factory’: Inside Israel’s Calculated Bombing of Gaza

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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week

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Did Bad Fire Science Send Tim and Deb Nicholls to Prison?

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Is It Okay to Like Chik-fil-A?

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Ride Sounds

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Our Top Reading Lists

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The Librarian Who Couldn’t Take It Anymore

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How Sandra Hüller Approached Playing a Nazi

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What Happens to a School Shooter’s Sister?

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Tyrian Purple: The Lost Ancient Pigment That Was More Valuable Than Gold

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Everybody Knows Flo From Progressive. Who Is Stephanie Courtney?

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Inside the Weird and Wonderful World of Miniatures

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Our Most-Read Longreads Originals of 2023

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Piecing Together My Father’s Murder

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How Citizen Surveillance Ate San Francisco

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The Train Wrecked in Slow Motion

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Last Love: a Romance in a Care Home

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Sick City

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Rebuilding Myself After Brain Injury

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Ice Cream, Alone and with Others

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A Hiker and a Terrier Climbed a Peak. The Dog Came Home 72 Days Later.

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Studying the Swarm

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The Naturalist and the Wonderful, Lovable, So Good, Very Bold Jay

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A Coder Considers the Waning Days of the Craft

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The Botched Hunt for the Gilgo Beach Killer

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A Violent Murder, a Child on Death Row

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Days of the Jackal

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Not One Tree

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So Fierce Is the World: On Loneliness and Philip Seymour Hoffman

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The Soundtrack of Our Lives: A Reading List on Pop Concerts

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Salmon Are Vanishing From the Yukon River — And So is a Way Of Life

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What If Psychedelics’ Hallucinations Are Just a Side Effect?

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