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Maggie Levantovskaya | Longreads | August 31, 2023 | 20 minutes (5,624 words) It’s been a month since Russia fired its missiles on the city of my birth, unleashing full-scale war. I’ve come to San Francisco to arrange burials for my grandma and grandpa.  The funeral home is in the neighborhood I hated all my childhood in America. It made me feel like I would never get the sound of Russian out of my ears, like we had emigrated just to be among more Soviets. Across the street is the apartment building that my mom and I moved into the…

The true price of nuclear power. America’s longest-incarcerated man. One man secretly takes on a global tragedy. Colorful characters to eat and compare. The filmmaking legend’s early years. We’ll tell you all that and more in this week’s article. read! rachel greenlee | orion magazine | August 1, 2023 | 3,504 words Although medical science has made many advances, anyone who has supported a loved one through a serious illness knows that the science is still evolving. When you need an answer, often all you have is a question.for orion, Rachel Greenlee examines America’s love affair with the nuclear bomb…

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Seth Simons | Longreads | August 17, 2023 | 15 minutes (4,165 words) When Hollywood studio executives refused to meet the reasonable demands of the writers who had made them richer than kings, they deprived the world of a historic spectacle: Pete Davidson’s return to the show that transformed him from a human being into a celebrity. The comedian was set to host Saturday Night Live on May 6, a booking timed to promote his semi-autobiographical TV series Bupkis, not to be confused with his semi-autobiographical film The King of Staten Island (itself not to be confused with Staten Island…

The decision whether or not to have a child is one of the most consequential choices most people make. As I edge past my mid-thirties, it’s a question that has dominated my thinking. When faced with a dilemma I can’t solve, my usual strategy is to read. I order a bunch of books and immerse myself in other people’s experiences. It allows my thoughts to coalesce around a few themes; from there, I can see where I agree and where I diverge. To paraphrase Joan Didion, I read to understand what I think.  A decision as monumental as this is…

Lucy Sexton and Joe Sexton | Atavist Magazine | July 2023 | 1,233 words (5 minutes) This is an excerpt from the issue. 141, “held together” Becoming a single father ended my career as a sportswriter. With two young girls to take care of, I wasn’t able to take a West Coast swing during baseball season.So I moved to Times” I got a job at a subway desk and became a proper city reporter, doing a mix of hard news and feature stories. From the TWA Flight 800 explosion off the coast of Long Island to the story of a…

The humanity of “low-skill” workers, a missing child linked to a cult, snow monkeys in South Texas, a multi-million dollar mail order scam, and the unfortunate decline of a fish and chip shop. These are our editors’ favorite articles of the week. Lana Hall | Hazlitt | July 12, 2023 | 3,210 words Lana Hall made her living as a sex worker at a Toronto massage parlor, working three to six shifts a week from 2 p.m. to 2 a.m. One night, while preparing for a particularly unpleasant last guest, Hall is humbled not by the man he has to…

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Human ingenuity in the face of crumbling infrastructure. A man’s quest to save birds that may already be extinct. A cultural divide that divides major musical genres. A personal essay that interweaves space and family. And the jungle trek went horribly wrong. These are our editors’ favorite reads of the week. Ilir Gashi | Guardian and Kosovo 2.0 | July 13, 2023 | 4,061 words In 2012, I lived in Pristina, Kosovo for several months. Her mother was disappointed, but she couldn’t receive mail at my apartment. I didn’t have a postbox or a number. As far as I know,…

When two touted pop-culture events happen on the same day, people—consumers, the media, even the artists themselves—tend to frame it as a showdown. Think Kanye West vs. 50 Cent, Blade Runner vs. The Thing, Nevermind vs. Blood Sugar Sex Magik. That’s not happening with Barbie and Oppenheimer, both of which hit theaters today. To the contrary: The term “Barbenheimer” has swept into the pop lexicon to describe turning this cinematic synchronicity into a double feature. Yes, reader, that means four hours and 54 minutes of big-screen immersion. As for why this has happened, your guess is as good as ours.…