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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week

This story was funded by our members. Join Longreads and help us to support more writers.In this week’s edition:Two teens, fentanyl, and the systems that failed them The private lives of pygmy seahorses An iconic national park during peak (idiot) tourist season The perseverance of a beginning beekeeper The attorney taking on doggy death...

Fri Oct 4, 2024 13:10
He Handles Custody Disputes, Death Row Cases, and Biters. He’s Salem’s Dog Lawyer.

Not every dog is a very good boy, or at least not all the time. Sometimes they bite humans or attack other dogs. When that happens—provided you’re in Massachusetts—there’s only one man to call. Douglass Starr’s profile of attorney Jeremy Cohen proves that law isn’t always a walk in the bark.Midnight was case number 14. The black, wolfish dog was sentenced...

Fri Oct 4, 2024 04:14
The Noblest of Things

For The Threepenny Review, novice beekeeper David Fowler recounts his attempts to fill his hive box with wild bee swarms near Penelope, Texas. He learns that when it comes to beekeeping, perseverance is the primary requirement.The queen lives to lay eggs, the only bee in the hive of say, eighty thousand, who does so. A handful of males, drones, are...

Thu Oct 3, 2024 16:19
Manhattan Burning

This story was funded by our members. Join Longreads and help us to support more writers.Betsy Golden Kellem | The Atavist Magazine | September 2024 | 2,055 words (8 minutes)This is an excerpt from issue no. 155, “City on Fire.”The first fire bell rang out at the St. James Hotel at a quarter to nine in the evening. A guest had noticed smoke curling...

Thu Oct 3, 2024 13:19
Your First Electric Car Could Be a Vintage Ford Bronco

Don’t own an EV yet? Do the current options on the market bore you? Dive into Rosecrans Baldwin’s GQ piece about Kindred Motorworks, a San Francisco startup modernizing and electrifying classic cars, like vintage Ford Broncos and Volkswagen microbuses. Baldwin tours the company’s HQ—”basically a gigantic toy shop for car nerds”—and gets to test-drive...

Wed Oct 2, 2024 22:26
Summer’s Over

“Any worthwhile analysis has to start from the searing fact that so far, nothing we’ve done has worked.” So begins this reflection by leftist collective The Bad Side on the campus encampments from last spring. Originally published as a pamphlet, and reproduced for a wider readership by n+1, this essay may start on a dispiriting note, but it quickly...

Wed Oct 2, 2024 20:56

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