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3 Midweek Longreads: "For the rest of us, the end has come much too soon."

Longreads to savour or save.

IF YOU WANT a juicy longread to sink your teeth into, you’ve come to the right place.

Here are three to save for a moment of peace, or devour straight away.

1. Goodbye, Kurt

21 years ago, Kurt Cobain took his own life. This 1994 cover story looked at the aftermath.

(Spin, 14 mins)

And if there was any doubt in Cobain or his detractors’ minds that Nirvana’s core audience did not understand his message — that they were, as Cobain himself once worried in the liner notes of Incesticide, at bottom, redneck, metal-headed morons with no sense of his message — the vigil at Seattle Center dispelled that notion forever.

2. The Brothers

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s friends had no idea the guy they knew as Jahar might have been involved in the Boston bombings, until they saw his photo on the TV.

(Buzzfeed, 16 mins)

Very soon, many of Tamerlan’s and Jahar’s friends would be telling the FBI and the media that it was impossible that the brothers were the bombers—there had been no sign. Surely, the friends would say, if the two had been plotting something so huge and horrible, they would have seemed distracted.

3. Watching my house crumble

The owners of houses along parts of the English coast are seeing their homes swallowed up by erosion.

(The Guardian, 27 mins)

When I walked over I realised that, although the house was still there, the cliff beneath it was not.” Quite calmly, she began transferring the contents of her bungalow to the caravan. “People said how brave I was, but it was bravado. I was absolutely numb.”

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