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The Afterlife of a Stolen Bike
“22 bikes a day are stolen in Melbourne. I decided to buy one to return it to its rightful owner.”
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Our 10 most-read Longreads essays of 2025.
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The Baby Whisperer
“Marian Fraser once ran the go-to day care for Waco’s elite. But the community turned against her after she was arrested for the death of a child in her charge. The evidence against her was circumstantial, yet many came to believe there had long been a dark secret to her success.”
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The Last Great Weed Smuggler
“Before the cartels took over, Harvey Prager built a life on millions of dollars of drug money. One prosecutor called Prager ‘the last of the great amateurs.’ This is his story.”
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The Hardest Part Of History To Tell Is How It Felt
“Historians and nonfiction authors often glide over lived experience. They prefer actions, citations, details, dates. But I had just gone through something primal—something beyond my control and beyond the boundaries of modern life.”
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Do You Believe in Life After Death? These Scientists Study It.
“Is reincarnation real? Is communication from the ‘beyond’ possible? A small set of academics are trying to find out, case by case.”
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I Turned Off My Phone for a Month and Used a Landline
“No texts, no Instagram, no subway Slack.”
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What Will It Take to Get AI Out of Schools?
“The tech world assumes that AI-aided education is necessary and inevitable. A growing number of parents, educators, and cognitive scientists say the opposite.”
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The Strange Saga of Faces of Death
“It scarred countless children—and allegedly left one dead. Many still believe it was all real. Some of it was.”
