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@longreads The Top 5 Longreads of the Week #Longform #Journalism #Essays
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Sep 25, 2026
@lithub Elizabeth Alexander on Finding Life in the Second Spring of Middle Age #Literature #Essays #MiddleAge
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Sep 25, 2026
@monochromatic_aberration Sufficiently Advanced #Essays #Photography #Art
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Sep 24, 2026
@ongoing_by_tim_bray The Purpose Isn't What It Does #Tech #Essays #Web
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Sep 24, 2026
@atoms_vs_bits Judgment Difficult #Life #Essays #Reflection
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Sep 24, 2026
@lithub Sanna Wani on Crafting a Poetics of Daughterhood #Poetry #Literature #Essays
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Sep 24, 2026
@applied_cartography State and Main #Essays #Reviews #Media
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Sep 24, 2026
@applied_cartography Vue #Tech #Software #Essays
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Sep 24, 2026
@applied_cartography The new look #Essays #Reviews #Media
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Sep 24, 2026
@the_republic_of_letters The Error-Besotten Angel Down #Literature #Essays #Culture
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Sep 23, 2026
@colin_devroe (untitled) #Photography #Links #Essays
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Sep 23, 2026
@new_york_review_of_books Sand Castles #Culture #Books #Essays
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Sep 23, 2026
@longreads My Two Front Teeth #Essays #Memoir #Health
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Sep 23, 2026
@lithub In Praise of Lost Time: On a Poetics That Subverts Linear Chronology #Poetry #Literature #Essays
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Sep 23, 2026
@dan_sinker What If We Just Stopped? #Culture #Essays #Life
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Sep 23, 2026
@applied_cartography To Live and Die in L.A. #Media #Reviews #Essays
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Sep 23, 2026
@longreads Impossibility is a Myth #Journalism #Essays #Nonfiction
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Sep 22, 2026
@longreads Annie Dillard and the Writing Life #Writing #Essays #Creativity
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Sep 22, 2026
@oakland_review_of_books Forty years of not getting closer #Books #LiteraryCriticism #Essays
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Sep 22, 2026
@the_dial A Question of Intent #Literature #Culture #Essays
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Sep 22, 2026
@the_republic_of_letters This Week at The Republic of Letters #Literature #Culture #Essays
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Sep 21, 2026
@longreads On Not Being a Homeowner #Homeownership #Essays #Journalism
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Sep 21, 2026
@atoms_vs_bits PWATL 3 #Life #Essays #Personal
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Sep 21, 2026
@atoms_vs_bits How Tips Are Framed #Life #Essays #Observations
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Sep 21, 2026
@lithub The Archive Talks Back: Eight Books That Wrest Humanity From the Record #Books #Literature #Essays
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Sep 21, 2026
@westenberg Outrage is Our Last Campfire #Culture #Essays #Society
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Sep 21, 2026
@tom_stuart Weeknotes 350: Accidental segue #Weeknotes #SoftwareDevelopment #Essays
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Sep 20, 2026
@looking_through_the_past The Long Way Around #History #Essays #Past
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Sep 20, 2026
@the_republic_of_letters How To Be a Rhinoceros #Literature #Essays #Culture
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Sep 19, 2026
@applied_cartography Engineering produces wisdom #Engineering #Wisdom #Essays
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Sep 19, 2026
@longreads Murder-in-Law #TrueCrime #Family #Essays
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Sep 18, 2026
@colin_devroe (untitled) #Notes #Essays #TIL
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Sep 18, 2026
@longreads The Top 5 Longreads of the Week #Longform #Journalism #Essays
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Sep 18, 2026
@sean_bonner The Crowd 319: Courage & Cowards #Essays #InternetCulture #Society
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Sep 18, 2026
@monochromatic_aberration Among the Oils #Art #Photography #Essays
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Sep 17, 2026
@the_republic_of_letters A Compulsive Habit #Literature #Essays #Culture
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Sep 17, 2026
@lobsters The Shape of Things to Come, Part 1: The Continuous Thunderdome #Tech #Programming #Essays
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Sep 17, 2026
@new_york_review_of_books 'Writing on One Table' #Literature #History #Essays
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Sep 17, 2026
@new_york_review_of_books Tujunga #Culture #Books #Essays
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Sep 17, 2026
@lithub Lit Hub Daily: September 17, 2026 #Books #Literature #Essays
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Sep 17, 2026

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