Crime for a good cause?
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Posted inThe Atavist Magazine
The Thief Who Wanted to Save the World
“An ex-cop pulled off the largest armed robbery in Austria’s history, with his friend’s mistress as his accomplice. But he wasn’t trying to get rich. He wanted to be a real-life Robin Hood.”
Posted inQuestionnaire
The Longreads Questionnaire, Featuring Jon Ronson
The author of The Castle likes his music in a time capsule and silence in his home—but definitely not in his stories.
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Our Top 5: Dolphin Allure, Imperfect Voices, and More
Suddenly, it feels like the tail-end of summer. Where I live, that makes folks scramble.
Posted inTop 5
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
In this edition: Bad medicine, imperfect sound forever, know when to fold ’em, brainiacs, and a call of the wild.
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Rebel Rebel
Sometimes the support we need is a soundtrack. It felt important to me, as a parent, to play my daughter songs that evoked the bigness of the world and revealed a number of ways to be in it.
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Power of the Badge
Having a cop in the family can reveal new dimensions of complexity, pitting family notions of justice against institutional notions of the same.
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Our Top 5: Cultivated Meat, Scammers, and More
Three favorite five-star reads and our Top 5.
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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
Showcasing stories from Andrew Fedorov, Shayla Love, Malcolm Johnston, Erin Somers, and Chris Stanton.