Best of 2021: The Stories We Missed By Longreads Feature The pieces we didn’t get to — until now. Friends: We Need Your Help to Fund More Stories
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The Professor By Irina Dumitrescu Feature “Maybe the most powerful person is the one who dares to refuse the gift.”
Debt Demands a Body By Kristin Collier Feature “The future that debt chose for me — indeed the future it chooses for many people — included a lot of shame, confusion, and pain.”
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from bell hooks, Christopher Curtis, Kate Connolly, David Ramsey, and Henry Grabar.
The Big, Bonkers, British, Christmas Pantomime By Carolyn Wells Feature Oh, yes I did! An attempt to explain the bizarre tradition of the British Christmas pantomime.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Greg Tate, Alicia Inez Guzmán, Christian Wallace, Laura Hoffman, and Connie Wang.
Los Desaparecidos By Longreads Feature Women in Sinaloa, Mexico, are searching for the remains of “disappeared” loved ones — and cooking to keep their memories of the dead alive.
Best of 2021: Personal Essays By Longreads Feature The personal essays that we can’t stop thinking about.
Debt Demands a Body By Kristin Collier Feature “The future that debt chose for me — indeed the future it chooses for many people — included a lot of shame, confusion, and pain.”
Longreads Best of 2021: All of Our No. 1 Story Picks By Longreads Feature Here’s every story that was chosen as No. 1 in our weekly Top 5 email.
Our Most-Read Longreads Originals of 2021 By Krista Stevens Feature The original reporting and personal essays that were our most-read stories of the year.
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