Here's what we've got for you in our Weekly Top 5:
* Wildfire: too close and personal (Alta Journal)
* Running from demons (The Economist)
* Experiments in microdosing (5280 Magazine)
* Reading is hard (Vox)
* "Jackass" as a love language (Bright Wall/Dark Room)
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Here's what we've got for you in our Weekly Top 5:
* Tracking greed (n+1 Magazine)
* Teaching through terminal illness (Stanford Magazine)
* Pivoting as a pastor (The New York Times)
* Reading poetry, closely (Slate)
* Breaking bad loading habits (The Atlantic)
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Here's what we've got for you in our Weekly Top 5:
* Long COVID camaraderie (Men's Health)
* Breeding terrorists on Telegram @ProPublica / Frontline
* 737 Max coverup (Wired)
* Petrusich profiles Dacus (The New Yorker)
* The Irish pub as export (Smithsonian Magazine)
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Here's what we've got for you in our Weekly Top 5:
* Propagate language, preserve culture (Noēma)
* Hip-hop hooch hustles (Taste)
* Grieving a landscape lost (Salvation South)
* A gutsy take on indigestion (VQR)
* All the feels for the forums (The Fence)
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Here's what we've got for you in our Weekly Top 5:
* Dying to seek asylum in Canada (The Local)
* The rise of UFC @RollingStone
* Hoarding at the British Museum (The Guardian)
* A mystery at Lake Tahoe (Bay Nature)
* Dog dialogue (NYT Mag)
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Here's what we've got for you in our Weekly Top 5:
* An opioid town’s turnaround @nymag
* A love letter to cardboard (Places Journal)
* The chemicals animals provide (Works in Progress)
* Computerized companions @verge
* The transfiguration of Jude Law (British GQ)
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Here's what we've got for you in our Weekly Top 5:
* The endorphins of community @nymag
* Environmentalism and the far right @ProPublica
* Richard Gadd, post-Baby Reindeer (British GQ)
* Documenting graves as a hobby @slate
* Revolutionary bike riders in Afghanistan (Bicycling Magazine)
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Here's what we've got for you in our Weekly Top 5:
* Ta-Nehisi Coates on necessary truths @nymag
* The rise of Russian poker bots (Bloomberg Businessweek)
* Searching for interplanetary life (The Washington Post)
* The real predator in the woods (The Bitter Southerner)
* Letting horror movies be horror movies (The Baffler)
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Here's what we've got for you in our Weekly Top 5:
* Suffering from environmental illness at Harper's Magazine
* The double-edged sword that is social media at The Walrus
* Uncovering painful family secrets @nymag
* Jail library book treasures at Split Lip Magazine
* Cooking as a free man @sfgate
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Here's what we've got for you in our Weekly Top 5:
* The preventable toll of youth football @RollingStone
* Professional whistleblowing for profit at GQ
* Survivalist hideouts for sale at The New Yorker
* The consultant con at n+1 magazine
* Discovering new bee species at @hakaimagazine
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Here's what we've got for you in our Weekly Top 5:
* A Bitcoin-fuelled health nightmare at Time Magazine
* Oil's hidden history in Los Angeles at Noema Magazine
* Buying fentanyl components online at Reuters
* Preservation over profit in Alberta, Canada @thenarwhal / The Globe and Mail
* Wayfinding with hand-drawn maps at The New York Times
Here's what we've got for you in our Weekly Top 5:
* The consequences of speaking out (Bookforum)
* The violence of Sean Combs (New York Times Magazine)
* Marilyn Munroe vs. Palm Springs, CA (@slate)
* On caring for a partner with Alzheimer’s (The Guardian)
* Why pooping on the moon is crappy (Wired)
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Here's what we've got for you in our Weekly Top 5:
* How sickle cell patients are pressured into sterilization @STAT
* How opioid restrictions harm the terminally ill (The Baffler)
* The enshittification of bowling (The Lever)
* The sudden ubiquity of steroids (GQ)
* Why sperm is a hot commodity (The Guardian)
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https://longreads.com/2024/06/07/the-top-5-longreads-of-the-week-518
Here's what we've got for you in our Weekly Top 5:
* Student protesters in their own words.
* Dance as freedom from disability.
* Wealth disparity in Big Sky, Montana.
* The Anthropocene as earth’s final epoch.
* Birthing a Cabbage Patch Doll.
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The Weekly Top 5 is here! In this week's edition:
• How Israel uses AI for assassination in the Gaza War
• A father reflects on his son’s development
• The rise of the term, “gaslighting”
• Toni Morrison’s expansive rejection letters
• The history of PostSecret
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https://longreads.com/2024/04/05/the-top-5-longreads-of-the-week-510/
In this week's Top 5 we're highlighting stories about:
- Interracial persecution in 1960s Michigan
- The cruelty bred into the chickens we eat
- How Photo Shuffle helped one man through loss
- Navigating life not knowing you’re neurodivergent
- The deep craft in forging a handmade knife
All this and the piece our audience loved most!
In this week's Top 5 we're highlighting stories about:
- Restorative justice.
- Donated bodies allegedly sold at Harvard.
- An ER doctor who recognized her own catastrophic symptoms.
- A fascinating career pivot.
- Seven chimpanzees on the lam.
All this and the piece our audience loved the most in our weekly top 5.
This week we're highlighting stories about:
- What it’s like to be a child of war.
- A school-shooting support group for principals.
- Being a rodeo queen in 1981.
- Becoming a woman in NYC in 1978.
- The San Francisco donut shop that hasn’t closed in over 50 years.
All this and the piece our audience loved the most in our weekly top 5.
In this week's edition of the Top 5, we're recommending stories about:
* Catching nonagenarian Nazis at GQ.
* Trying to live forever at Time Magazine.
* The overpowering need to return home at The Sydney Review of Books.
* Forgiving your dad at The Sun Magazine.
* Finding humor in getting scammed repeatedly at Business Insider.
All this and the piece our audience loved the most in our weekly top 5.
https://longreads.com/2023/10/06/the-top-5-longreads-of-the-week-486/
Poetry as a salve. What grief can teach. Dinner and theatrics in Branson, Missouri. The pleasures of learning a musical instrument and a behind-the-scenes look at The Fugitive.
All this and the piece our audience couldn't resist in this week's Top 5.
https://longreads.com/2023/08/04/top-5-longreads-of-the-week-477/
