Stories by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Min Jin Lee, and Saul Bellow.
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The Silence of Women
Women who spoke too angrily or too publicly were punished in cruel and unusual ways.
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The Haväng Dolmen
A trip to a Swedish stone-age burial site gives an archaeologist too close a look at death.
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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
This week, we’re sharing stories from Tressie McMillan Cottom, Kashmir Hill, R.O. Kwon, Jaime Lowe, and Steve Edwards.
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Stories to Read in 2019
A dozen exceptional stories from 2018 that deserve our ongoing attention.
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The Thrill (and the Heavy Emotional Burden) of Blazing a Trail for Black Women Journalists
Dorothy Butler Gilliam remembers how exciting it was to integrate The Washington Post, but also how lonely — and often attacked — she felt as the first black woman reporter in the newsroom.
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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
This week, we’re sharing stories from Kavitha Surana and Hannah Dreier, Garrett M. Graff, Dani Shapiro, Taffy Brodesser-Akner, and Lauren Hough.
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The 25 Most Popular Longreads Exclusives of 2018
The original reporting, personal essays, columns, and collaborations that were our most-read stories of the year.
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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
This week, we’re sharing stories from Casey Parks, Cathy Newman, Zach Baron, Molly Priddy, and Christopher Solomon.
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Longreads Best of 2018: Business Writing
We asked writers and editors to choose some of their favorite stories of the year in various categories. Here is the best in business writing.