Featuring reads from Scott Huler, Sophie Elmhirst, Lauren Smiley, Brian Payton, and Caity Weaver.
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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
This week we are sharing stories from Janell Ross, Jude Isabella, Arthur Asseraf, Lex Pryor, and Diane Mehta.
Posted inEditor's Pick
The Quest for Longevity Is Already Over
“For Robine, each supercentenarian is a crucial datapoint in the quest to answer a big question: Is there an upper limit to the human lifespan?”
Posted inFeature
The Buddy System
There is nothing quite like it. Surfing is a way of being connected to a deeper deep, an older old.
Posted inEditor's Pick
Desert Hours
“There are moments when I’m happier now than I remember being very often in the past, though these moments gleam out of a new solitude.”
Posted inEditor's Pick
It’s the Coolest Rock Show in Ann Arbor. And Almost Everyone There Is Over 65.
“At the “Geezer Happy Hour,” the ‘silver tsunami’ has been dancing for decades.”
Posted inFeature
The Sunset
There are plenty of reasons to see nursing homes as sad, neglectful places. There are also reasons to see them as something else entirely.
Posted inCurrent Events, Feature, Profiles & Interviews, Science & Nature, Story
Notes for a Post-apocalyptic Novel
When things get hard, we look to our most fundamental relationships. This is the story of a son, a father, a camper van, a pandemic, and the ties that bind.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Feature, Highlight, Story
In Absentia
A meditation on the nature of grief, at a time when the whole world seems to be grieving.
Posted inNonfiction
Molly and the Unicorn
Emily Flake reflects on the shifting nature of magic and power in middle age.