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‘The Antithesis of Bolsonaro’: A Gay Couple Roils Brazil’s Far Right

“This can wind up strengthening democracy,” said David Miranda, who is at the center of an intensifying dispute with President Jair Bolsonaro.Credit...Dado Galdieri for The New York Times RIO DE JANEIRO — The votes had been tallied, and the skies of Rio de Janeiro crackled with fireworks as…

Jul 29, 2019

I cannot be your mentor, here’s everything I know – adrienne maree brown

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i have been getting weekly requests to mentor people. i am not a great one to one mentor, and my life dance card is full in the best way. here are some things i know related to mentoring and the things i would offer to those in search of such guidance: a mentor cannot teach you more than life…

Jul 13, 2019

When the World’s Most Famous Mystery Writer Vanished

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Paper Chase On a cold December night in 1926, Agatha Christie went out in her beloved Morris Cowley roadster and didn’t return home for 11 days. Here’s how her disappearance played out. June 11, 2019 It was like a plot from one of her own novels: On the evening of Dec. 4, Agatha Christie, carrying…

Jul 3, 2019

Bully or the Bullied? Kathleen Hale Is Both

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Nonfiction Credit...Tallulah Fontaine AmazonApple BooksBarnes and NobleBooks-A-MillionBookshop When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. KATHLEEN HALE IS A CRAZY STALKER Six Essays By Kathleen Hale Authors hold a strange place in our cultural…

Jul 2, 2019

New Feelings: Crush Fatigue — Real Life

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NEW FEELINGS is a column devoted to the desires, moods, pathologies, and identifications that rarely had names before digital media. Read the other installments here. In her 1979 book Love and Limerence, psychologist Dorothy Tennov set out to give a formal account of “the experience of being in…

Jul 2, 2019

Boarding schools produce bad people and great novels

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The boarding school novel should be dead. The institution it depicts is elite, insular, and deeply alien to most people. It produces graduates like Mark Zuckerburg and William Randolph Hearst — titans and megalomaniacs. It is a relic of a bygone age, a peculiar fossil. And yet, it is stubbornly…

Jul 1, 2019

Losing Religion and Finding Ecstasy in Houston

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Personal History Christianity formed my deepest instincts, and I have been walking away from it for half my life. May 20, 2019 I’ve been walking away from institutional religion for half my life, fifteen years dismantling what the first fifteen built.Illustration by Shawna X The church I grew up in…

May 24, 2019

Why I (Still) Love Tech: In Defense of a Difficult Industry

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It’s been hard to accept, at least for me, that each of our techy ideologies, while containing various merits, don’t really add up to a worldview, because technology is not the world. It’s just another layer in the Big Crappy Human System along with religion, energy, government, sex, and, more than…

May 15, 2019

Billie Eilish and the Changing Face of Pop

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While performing at Coachella, earlier this month, the singer-songwriter Billie Eilish forgot the words to her song “All Good Girls Go to Hell.” Eilish, who is only seventeen, didn’t seem especially bothered by the lapse. She exuded a cool girl’s sprezzatura, style as nonchalance. Mumbling a little,…

May 10, 2019

How to Listen to Your Anger

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Anger is energy with a message, and it’s talking to you Annie Nelson Mueller 9 min read· Apr 23, 2019 -- Press enter or click to view image in full size Credit: Malte Mueller/Getty Images For years, I was known in my friend group as “the calm one.” I took this label as a compliment because it meant…

May 10, 2019

Paraguay: el país de Internet en las aulas (II)

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Matías Insaurralde 7 min read· Apr 29, 2019 -- “Uno de los cuellos de botella que el proyecto World Links ha encontrado es la falta de una política clara por parte de los ministerios acerca del uso de las computadoras en la educación” — Robert Hawkins sobre el proyecto “World Links”, un proyecto…

May 10, 2019

When Did Pop Culture Become Homework?

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This story was funded by our members. Join Longreads and help us to support more writers. Soraya Roberts | Longreads | April 2019 | 6 minutes (1,674 words) I didn’t do my homework last weekend. Here was the assignment: Beyoncé’s Homecoming — a concert movie with a live album tie-in — the biggest…

May 10, 2019

Vampire Weekend's 'Father of the Bride': Review

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Has there ever been a better time to appreciate Vampire Weekend? This is a band, of course, whose modus operandi has long been to pierce the bubble of moneyed privilege surrounding places like Cambridge and Manhattan so we can all have a look inside. Consider what may be the best, if not biggest,…

May 10, 2019

Ugliness Is Underrated: Ugly Fashion

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Balenciaga’s “ugly dad sneakers.” In 2009, Alexander McQueen sketched a shoe that would forever change footwear, even for those who, like me, would never try it on or even see it in person. The shoe was shaped like a crab’s claw and covered in glittering scales. It had a nine-inch spiked heel and an…

May 10, 2019

Samanta Schweblin’s Deliberately Slow, Perfectly Timed Rise to American Fame

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Samanta Schweblin. Photo: Alejandra Lopez May kicks off with the 15th annual PEN World Voices Festival, when international authors take over New York for a week of panels and events, and ends with the announcement of the 2019 Man Booker International Prize. In celebration of a month replete with…

May 10, 2019

Inside Microsoft’s surprise decision to work with Google on its Edge browser

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Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella was frustrated. Microsoft’s Edge web browser, released in 2015, hadn’t made much progress by the summer of 2017. “Satya came to us and said, ‘Hey, I’d like to see us make more progress on the browser,’” says Microsoft’s Joe Belfiore, in an exclusive interview with The…

May 10, 2019

How Pete Buttigieg became the new toast of Silicon Valley’s wealthiest donors

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The two 30-somethings drove the modest streets of South Bend, double-checking the microphone volume as they poked one another over their elite academic credentials and offered at times a nerdy, low-production attempt at a buddy comedy. Behind the seatbelts: Pete Buttigieg and Mark Zuckerberg. The…

May 9, 2019

Ariana Grande Was Accused of Copying ‘7 Rings,’ Again and Again … and Again

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Welcome to the Age of Pop 'Plagiarism' In 2019, the question of if and how a song has been copied is an incredibly complicated one. Illustration: Mike McQuade and Photos by Kevin Winter/Getty Images, Joseph Okpako/WireImage and Ethan Miller/Getty Images. Allegations of copying and cultural…

Apr 11, 2019

A Mysterious Infection, Spanning the Globe in a Climate of Secrecy

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Deadly germs, Lost cures The rise of Candida auris embodies a serious and growing public health threat: drug-resistant germs. Revenge of the Bacteria: Why We’re Losing the War9:02 Bacteria are rebelling. They’re turning the tide against antibiotics by outsmarting our wonder drugs. This video…

Apr 11, 2019

Why Simone Weil is the patron saint of anomalous persons – Christy Wampole | Aeon Essays

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Simone Weil (1909-43) belonged to a species so rare, it had only one member. This peculiar French philosopher and mystic diagnosed the maladies and maledictions of her own age and place – Europe in the first war-torn half of the 20th century – and offered recommendations for how to forestall the…

Apr 5, 2019

Zodiac Ascending: Astrology Startups Reach for the Stars

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The day was young and full of promise, electrified by the moon in Sagittarius. An astrologer named Aliza texted me that I was on the cusp of a new cycle. It was time to tantalize my “Venusian sensibilities.” Power emoji: 💆 I had found Aliza while beta testing a new app called Sanctuary. The app,…

Mar 21, 2019

Why I'm Wary of the Hype Surrounding HIV “Cures”

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12 years ago, Timothy Ray Brown, an HIV-positive cancer patient, received a blood stem cell transplant. Brown, who was later dubbed the “Berlin patient,” emerged from surgery free of cancer — and, to the world’s astonishment, free of HIV. Until recently, he was the only person known to be “cured” of…

Mar 19, 2019

My friend was smart, sweet, off-kilter. Now we’ll never get the chance to make up | Hadley Freeman

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Illustration: The Project Twins/Synergy A friend of mine died recently – still only in his 30s. People keep telling me how sorry they are, and of course I’m sad. He was such a presence that I feel almost haunted by his absence. But it’s also more complicated than that. I met N at university, where…

Mar 19, 2019

AAFU: My boyfriend of two years ghosted me | The Outline

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The philosopher Gillian Rose wrote a line I think about a lot. In her book Love’s Work, she says, “There is no democracy in any love relation: only mercy.” It is a very beautiful way of articulating a hideous truth: that we do not consent to be hurt or abandoned by those we love, and that the most…

Mar 9, 2019

The best computer is one you hate a little

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I got my first MacBook in 2009. It was big and silver and one of the first things I did with it was spend an entire Tuesday afternoon in my dorm room trying to record a cover of Kanye West’s “Love Lockdown” on GarageBand by sampling the sound of my hands slapping the computer’s metal body and…

Mar 8, 2019