In this week’s Top 5:
-The audacious hackers of North Korea
-The immense value of a cake tin
-The veil across a disconnected mind
-The demise of Skype
-The importance of a (very) old tree
#longreads
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"David would spend nearly three decades writing to his brother, years marked by nostalgia, regret and intense self-reflection."
Serge F. Kovaleski for The New York Times: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/29/us/unabomber-ted-kaczynski-letters.html
#Longreads #Letters #Brothers #Unabomber #TedKaczynski #Forgiveness #Guilt
"After a period in which Musk was seen as a shadow president, he will now become the de-facto mayor of his own small town."
Will McCarthy for Politico‬: https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/05/02/elon-musk-spacex-texas-starship-00317693
"Walloping the base of a tree with a sledgehammer has turned out to be a surprisingly efficient way to cause a column of rot to form above." —Matthew Ponsford for Noema Magazine.
https://www.noemamag.com/how-to-build-a-thousand-year-old-tree/?src=longreads
"Jenkins’s MDHA pills weren’t the only ones in circulation at the Starck Club, to be sure, but few suppliers, if any, could bring the kind of volume he could, thanks to the steady flow from his pill press."
Tom Foster for Texas Monthly: https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/ecstasy-starck-club-drugs-eighties-dallas/
"There may be much to fear in the near future, yet it could also be the most exciting time to be alive." —David Attenborough for The Sunday Times
#longreads #davidattenborough #nature #naturalworld #writing #nonfiction #climate
"To me, Skype meant a window to the world, and a milestone in my adulthood when I started making deep connections with others."
Isra Fejzullaj, Rina Chandran, and Michael Zelenko for Rest of World: https://restofworld.org/2025/skype-shutting-down/
"For all its problems, the L holds great significance for Chicagoans. It’s more than a means of moving people around — it’s integral to the city’s character."
Tal Rosenberg for Chicago Magazine: https://www.chicagomag.com/chicago-magazine/may-2025/the-l-in-crisis/
#Longreads #Cities #UrbanPlanning #Chicago #Transit #Transportation #Subway
Dr Bas Bloem, and the causes of Parkinson's.
https://www.politico.eu/article/bas-bloem-parkinsons-pesticides-mptp-glyphosate-paraquat/
"Letter after letter showed me a refreshing disregard for that invisible tyranny of taste determining what we 'should'—even 'must'—read."
Jackie Snow for The Los Angeles Review of Books‬: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/reading-behind-bars-and-beyond-barriers
#Longreads #Books #Reading #Incarcerated #Literature #Prisons #Jails
The ancient psychedelics myth: ‘People tell tourists the stories they think are interesting for them’
"When Dad planted green beans, did she think about their ability to be male and female at the same time?"
Leah Zani for Noema: https://www.noemamag.com/the-sex-lives-of-common-vegetables/
#Longreads #Essay #Gender #Sex #Nature #Gardening #Vegetables #Fruits #Queer
The new issue from our sister publication, The Atavist Magazine, is here! Read an excerpt of ALL THAT GLITTERS, a big story by Miranda Green about NYPD corruption, diamonds, a crypto scam, and more.
#Longreads #Journalism #Nonfiction #Scams #Crypto #Corruption #Crime #Bribery #NYC
"Perhaps it was more palatable to feel like I was losing him in installments; that I could say goodbye to each part as they left. Bye, legs; bye, feet; bye voice."
Mariana Serapicos for Electric Literature: https://electricliterature.com/losing-my-dad-in-installments
#Longreads #Essay #Fathers #Family #Memory #Aging #Grief #Loss #ALS
"Opened in 1902 beside the Kentish village of Borstal, now swallowed up by the town of Rochester, it’s the sort of place you’d expect Miss Trunchbull to be nutting about in, terrorising the kids with maniacal joy." —Georgia Brown for The Fence
https://www.the-fence.com/borstal-boys/?src=longreads
#longreads #prison #borstal #incarceration #nonfiction #writing
"Lisa didn’t know what happened to her patients after they left the hospital. Her concern was the short time she did have with them."
Ruby Cramer for The Washington Post: https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/interactive/2025/nyc-subway-mentally-ill-nurse-nypd/
#Longreads #Journalism #NewYorkCity #Subway #Cities #MentalIllness #MentalHealth #Homelessness #Unhoused
"The children of Operation Babylift, and all other descendants of American war, are both adoptees and refugees. But they are not voluntary immigrants, and they are not foreigners." —Camille Bromley for The Verge https://www.theverge.com/cs/features/651701/vietnam-operation-babylift-adoption-transnational
"Schulmann’s rivals ran their dojos like regular businesses—a huge mistake, he says. In the martial-arts world, money flows from power, not the other way around."
David Gauvey Herbert for Esquire: https://www.esquire.com/sports/a64452970/tiger-schulmann-martial-arts-empire-interview-2025/
#Longreads #Karate #MartialArts #MMA #Dojos #Business #Journalism
Nicholas Triolo walked 20 miles around America's largest #Superfund site. Read about this journey in an adapted excerpt from "The Way Around: A Field Guide to Going Nowhere," from Milkweed Editions:
#Longreads #Books #Environment #Nature #Butte #Montana #Water
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