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two-panel image of male author on the left and book cover on the right that reads "Take My Name But Say It Slow"

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Letter from Manhattan 2 

by Thomas Dai January 21, 2025February 3, 2025

On trying to be a “world citizen”—and how expat life rarely delivers on its promises.

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Best of 2025: All Our Number Five Story Picks

by Longreads December 18, 2025December 19, 2025

Every story we selected for the number five slot in our weekly newsletter, in a handy digest.

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I Remember the Bookstore

by Jason Guriel November 10, 2022March 5, 2024

Jason Guriel | On Browsing | November 2022 | 4,361 words (15 minutes) Let’s browse a bookstore—a Platonic one, a composite. Let’s wander an aisle, running our fingertips across a wall of spines. One spine, thick and black, juts out: the recent NYRB Classics reissue of William Gaddis’s novel The Recognitions. It’s a block of a book, […]

Television producer Lorne Michaels, surrounded by dozens of "Saturday Night Live" alumni.

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Who’s Afraid of Lorne Michaels?

by Seth Simons August 17, 2023February 3, 2026

Very rarely can we see an entire system reflected in one person. The creator and executive producer of “Saturday Night Live” is such a person.

The Diet Industrial Complex Got Me, and It Will Never Let Me Go

by michelleweber February 27, 2020October 19, 2022

There’s participating in the body positivity movement and then there’s actual body positivity, and one’s a lot harder — impossible, for some — than the other.