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The Atlantic to Promote Longreads' Longform Journalism

Longreads, the website that collects high-quality, longform journalism and fiction, has signed its first deal with The Atlantic, an outlet already well known for its own longform content. Beginning…
LENGTH: 1 minutes (274 words)

The Longform Guide to the Olympics

1992 Olympic "Dream Team" members Scottie Pippen, Michael Jordan, and Clide Drexler receive their gold medals in Barcelona Photo by Mike Powell/Getty Images. Every weekend, Longform shares a…
AUTHOR:Max Linsky
PUBLISHED: July 21, 2012
LENGTH: 5 minutes (1387 words)

Colm Tóibín on Joyce's Dublin: city of dreamers and chancers

Photograph: Bert Hardy/Hulton Archive/Getty Images One hundred and eight years ago today James Joyce and Nora Barnacle went out walking together for the first time. "Bloomsday", the day on which the…
PUBLISHED: June 15, 2012
LENGTH: 15 minutes (3769 words)

Night Thoughts of a Baffled Humanist

This essay is adapted from When I Was a Child I Read Books, forthcoming in the spring from Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Marilynne Robinson. Recently a friend sent me a composite photograph of…
LENGTH: 30 minutes (7658 words)
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