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The burger comes to me with a sauce as grey as Campbell’s Mushroom Soup squeezing from the bun’s outer edges, down two juicy beef patties and onto a moat of steaming, seasoned french…

Illustration by Ron Braunagel. Drifting into unconsciousness hasn’t always been easy for me.  Some nights, I would wake up about seven, eight times. Not just in a peaceful, half-eyed,…

Arby Little Soldier was sure that the birth of a rare white buffalo on his ranch would usher in an age of peace and harmony. a year later, the animal was dead—and so was Arby’s dream.…

[Best of 2012] Thanks to everyone who has participated in the Longreads community this year, and to all of our guests who shared their favorite stories of 2012. The below list represents our editors' favorite stories of the year, for both nonfiction and fiction.

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No one would accuse Jaroslav Flegr of being a conformist. A self-described “sloppy dresser,” the 53-year-old Czech scientist has the contemplative air of someone habitually lost in…

*A local farmer sells produce, in Santiago de Cuba (top);filling out a state store ration card (bottom) ore than a million Canadians will travel to Cub

A few years ago, before anyone knew his name, before rap artists from all over the country started hitting him up for music, the rap producer Lex Luger, born Lexus…

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