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The Shopper’s Dream of an Optimized Life
The subscription-based business model saves customers time, but it doesn’t help you use that extra time for anything beneficial. In a way you’ll feel good about.
Posted inQuotes
Happy Birthday Tom: A Tom Cruise Reading List
Tom Cruise is about to turn 60 — time for a look back at the life of a master maverick.
Posted inNonfiction, Top 5
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
This week, we’re sharing stories from Ibram X. Kendi, Wesley Morris, James Baldwin, Betsy Morais and Alexandria Neason, and Josina Guess.
Posted inFeature
Best of 2025: All Our Number Five Story Picks
Every story we selected for the number five slot in our weekly newsletter, in a handy digest.
Posted inCommentary, Current Events, Discussions, Podcasts
Editor’s Roundtable: Stories About Stories
Longreads editors discuss stories in ProPublica/The New Yorker, Wired, and Esquire.
Posted inEditor's Pick
The Secret History of Page Six
One-time New York Post reporter Kate Storey takes a deep dive into the history of the paper’s powerful gossip column, examining how it’s adapted since its founding in 1977, into the age of social media and #MeToo.
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“I Had to Face the Blues Every Day”
Soul and gospel singer Candi Staton let no hardship stand in the way of her voice, one that helped define the music of her generation.
Posted inNonfiction
Longreads Best of 2022: All of Our No. 1 Story Picks
All the stories we’ve selected as number one in our weekly Top 5 newsletter.
Posted inBlog Post, Commentary, Longreads News
Curation: The Best Reading, Hand-Picked, For You
Great writing moves us. It makes us feel good. It fills us with potential. Doesn’t everyone want to feel good and optimistic? Is this a mission you can get behind?
