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Shifting Identity, Shamans, and the Week’s Top 5

by Longreads January 24, 2025November 12, 2025

“So long as there are nations, there will be people trying to get out of them, tracking ceaselessly from one to the other while maybe wishing they could belong to the world instead.” In making a cross-country move recently, I realized that I can be a different person in a new place. There’s a certain […]

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Was It Worth It?

by Adam Dalva April 29, 2026April 28, 2026

“I didn’t think about those nachos even once. I had never experienced anything like it. Is this, I asked my friends, how it feels to be normal?”

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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week

by Longreads January 5, 2024August 6, 2025

This week, we feature stories from Tom Scocca, Giles Harvey, Chris Walker, Krithika Varagur, and N.C. Happe.

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My Unlikely Existence

by Phineas Rueckert March 3, 2026February 27, 2026

Is AI helping prospective parents game the fertility lottery? Should it?

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Eight Limes, No More: The Accidental Poetry of Found Lists

by Mira Ptacin July 15, 2025July 15, 2025

A found list is a rare analog window into someone else’s needs—an accidental autobiography, a blank space to be filled with one’s imagination.

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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week

by Longreads January 23, 2026March 20, 2026

In this edition: gambling’s grip, a story of plumes and poachers, bemoaning American tourists in Rome, a magical history tour, and a fake poultry flinger.