
On Mensa.
one good piece of longform journalism a fortnight

On Mensa.

On one of David Simon’s best friends, a remarkable woman from Baltimore.

A profound meditation on losing friends.

On the man who lost half a billion dollars in bitcoin.

On our ancestors.

A classic from John Jeremiah Sullivan on a Christian rock festival.

A profound personal essay on humiliation.

On getting babies to eat vegetables.

On a whistleblower with the strangest Tinder bio.

At the start of the coronavirus pandemic.