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Black and white photo of a dark round stone tunnel with a ghostly figure in the center

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The Lessons of Lore

by Elizabeth Friend October 29, 2024November 13, 2024

Ghost stories reveal our collective anxieties amid times of change.

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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week

by Longreads September 30, 2022October 19, 2022

This week, our editors recommend stories by Eric Borsuk, Aaron Gell, Laurie Penny, Hanif Abdurraqib, and Will Rees.

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Iconic Comics of a Cuban Cartoonist and the Week’s Top 5

by Longreads September 15, 2023November 12, 2025

“If an image is the idea of an idea, then a franchise is that second idea in perpetuity, because the image is the thing you can sand down and actually sell. You can’t profit off of history unless you rewrite it.” Welcome to the weekend! Our newest Longreads feature, by writer and culture critic Gyasi […]

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A Boozy Buddy Comedy and This Week’s Top 5

by Longreads October 6, 2023November 12, 2025

“I wanted to write stories. Mark wanted to live them. I’ve never stopped seeking achievement and he’s never stopped seeking places to go, the Peter Pan to my Wendy. He even married a flight attendant, mostly for love, but also for the free plane tickets that allow him to join me for book festivals, readings, […]

Nonfiction

Best of 2022: Reported Essays

by Longreads December 13, 2022December 8, 2022

Our list of some of the great reported essays published this year includes reads on grief, veganism, the geology of Mexico City, and British real estate.

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Parks and Re-Creation (and the Week’s Top 5)

by Longreads November 15, 2024November 12, 2025

“In spite of my confidence in cooking, I’ve never brought mulukhiyah into my urban kitchen. Eating it without my family’s elbows pressed against mine doesn’t make sense to me. I know I’d feel like an impostor, inserting myself into the sacred and altering it irreparably, as I can’t help but reinvent recipes with my own improvised […]