Recent editors’ picks

Lost Recipes

Abe Beame | Defector | March 5, 2026 |  4,647 words

“The Mind Squad and editorial staff like theirs—people who understood and loved the music—would create a new, vibrant, and deeply informed style of cultural journalism that defined an era.”

Sucker

McKay Coppins | The Atlantic | March 12, 2026 | 13,125 words

“My year as a degenerate gambler.”

The Zombie Regulator

E. Tammy Kim | The New Yorker | March 9, 2026 | 6,412 words

“As the cost of living continues to spiral upward, the Trump Administration is gutting the government agency built to protect Americans from financial ruin.”

Stay Classy

Andrew O’Hagan | London Review of Books | March 19, 2025 | 3,639 words

“Mummy loved Andrew, and what Mummy loved, Mummy protected.”

Problem Child

Eli Cugini | The Baffler | March 10, 2026 | 2,479 words

“The Creative Crisis at Pixar.”

You Can Just Do Things

Patrick Blanchfield | n+1 | March 2, 2026 | 2,684 words

“You don’t have to learn any lessons you don’t want to.”

Notes From a Burmese Prison

Danny Fenster and Amy Kurzweil | The Verge | February 27, 2026 | 4,082 words

“I came to Myanmar because, if our worst fears were coming to pass, I thought its journalists might have something to teach me.”

The Top 5 Longreads of the Week

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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week

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Recent editors’ picks

What I Found When I Tried to Walk Across Dallas in a Day

Jeffrey McWhorter | Texas Monthly | January 30, 2026 | 3,425 words

“Determined to find adventure in my own backyard, I tramped across my famously pedestrian-averse hometown. The most memorable part turned out to be the serendipitous encounters with neighbors I met along the way.”

The Shooting of Two Cornell Freshmen, 42 Years Later

Dylan Alphenaar | Collegetown Magazine | March 2, 2026 | 6,010 words

“In 1983 six students were taken hostage in a Cornell dormitory. Two of them were killed. How have the survivors reckoned with what happened to them, and what made us forget about this act of violence?”

Sense of Scents

Ana Marie Cox | Texas Highways | February 26, 2026 | 2,753 words

“The annual olfactory rush of cedar pollen is a sign of home.”

Buckle Up for Bumpier Skies

Burkhard Bilger | The New Yorker | March 2, 2026 | 8,262 words

“With climate change, the skies are becoming more turbulent. Can today’s planes still keep us safe?”

Recursive Resemblance

Patrick R. Crowley | Artforum | March 1, 2026 | 2,882 words

“On the feedback loops of mimesis, from the ancients to AI.”

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