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Our Braided Bread
By Benjamin Feature

In my native New York, I don’t feel the need to perfume the air around me with the sweet scent of challah. But here in Iowa, there is a void I need to fill.

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A collection of our favorite stories from the past year
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Cabin Fever: A Reading List for the Perpetually Isolated
By Kara Devlin Feature

How the pandemic made us confront what it means to be alone.

Celebrating Bitch Magazine: A Reading List
By A.H. Reaume Feature

A writer traces her own feminist journey as she reflects on the forthcoming shutdown of Bitch Media.

Plotting Out Structure and Writing Out Heroes: A Chat With the Writer and Editor Behind The Atavist‘s New Issue
By Brendan O'Meara Feature

In this excerpt from The Creative Nonfiction Podcast, host Brendan O’Meara talks to Katia Savchuk and Atavist editor-in-chief Seyward Darby about their work on “A Crime Beyond Belief.”

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No Health, No Care
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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
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This week, we’re sharing stories from Kerry Howley, Suzanne Cope, Micheli Oliver, Jeff Mao, and Rob Brunner.

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A kidnapping deemed a hoax, the newbie detective who cracked the case, and the Harvard-trained lawyer whose mental unraveling set the whole story in motion.

Down and Out in Habersham
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Drowning out a pandemic with alcohol.

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This week, we’re sharing stories from Tamara Dean, Samanth Subramanian, Sasha Plotnikova, Steve Edwards, and Caity Weaver.

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Low Country, High Water: A Reading List for a South Under Climate Change
By Spencer George Feature

How do you love a place that is sinking?

The 19th-Century Hipster Who Pioneered Modern Sportswriting
By Robert Isenberg Feature

More than a century before GoPro, Thomas Stevens’ around-the-world bike ride vaulted first-person “sports porn” into the mainstream.

Tomorrow Isn’t Over: A Reading List About Brighter Futures
By Peter Hemminger Feature

Hope may seem to be in short supply these days, but these stories dare to chart a course toward something better.

Celebrating 13 Years of Longreads
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Ten favorite Longreads originals, as selected by the editors.

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“I’m amazed at our human capacity to adapt to the unbearable. Almost anything can seem normal if it’s inflicted on us long enough.”

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A kidnapping deemed a hoax, the newbie detective who cracked the case, and the Harvard-trained lawyer whose mental unraveling set the whole story in motion.

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