“What they would be doing at top speed was exhuming human remains.”
The Baffler
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Doomsday Diaries
“The very notion of Palestinian civilians vanishes. This is the first kind of death.”
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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
Featuring stories from Margaret Talbot, Wiam El-Tamami, Virginia Heffernan, Dave Denison, and Meilan Solly.
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A Baker’s Secrets
“But how did he get that distinctive crumbly chewy moistness and a flavor that, for all I knew, depended on a secret ingredient?”
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Top 5 Longreads of the Week
Human ingenuity in the face of crumbling infrastructure. One man’s quest to save a bird that might already be extinct. The cultural schism dividing a major musical genre. A personal essay braiding space and family. And a jungle trek gone horribly, horribly awry. These are our editors’ favorite reads of the week. 1. The Balkans’ […]
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Black Hole Paradox
“I was…a specter buried in the back rooms of after-hours clubs and gambling dens, a haint hidden at the table of steak joints and shake dance spots.”
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Last Resorts
“Disabled people and advocates fear that medically assisted suicide will become a weapon for the state to do away with what capitalism considers unproductive bodies.”