Each story we chose as our number five piece of the week in 2023, all in one place.
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Bones, Bones: How to Articulate a Whale
“I have sat inside her rib cage. And yet I know nothing about her.”
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Your Wilderness Is Not Permanent
At an uncertain time in her life, Sejal Shah does Burning Man her own way.
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Why I Lied to Everyone in High School About Knowing Karate
As a teen, Jabeen Akhtar discovered that trying to be an exceptional immigrant can make you do stupid things.
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Longreads Member Exclusive: A Catastrophic Failure of Prediction, by Nate Silver
This week we’re proud to share a Longreads Member pick from Nate Silver‘s new book The Signal and the Noise, published by The Penguin Press. Chapter 1, “A Catastrophic Failure of Prediction,” comes recommended by Janet Paskin, editor of Businessweek.com, who writes: “Could there be a more appropriate hero for our time than Nate Silver? We […]
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Longreads Best of 2013: 22 Outstanding Book Chapters We Featured This Year
This year we featured not only the best stories from the web, but also great chapters from new and classic books. Here’s a complete guide to every book chapter we featured this year, both for free and for Longreads Members:
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Longreads Member Exclusive: A Catastrophic Failure of Prediction, by Nate Silver
This week we’re proud to share a Longreads Member pick from Nate Silver‘s new book The Signal and the Noise, published by The Penguin Press. Chapter 1, “A Catastrophic Failure of Prediction,” comes recommended by Janet Paskin, editor of Businessweek.com, who writes: Could there be a more appropriate hero for our time than Nate Silver? We can quantify and track […]
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Nate Silver: The End of Car Culture
It’s not just erratic gas prices and a bad economy that’s hurting automakers. It may be that Americans are changing.
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Nate Silver to Republicans: Raise Taxes
The GOP is no longer the party of the rich. It’s a populist party now, and the deficit can be its ticket back.
