“After a decade under the influence of music algorithms, a look at what streaming services afford the most engaged fans and what lingers below the surface.”
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Help Us Stay a Home for the Weird
“Invite writers and readers in—magic will follow.” Six years ago, I published my first essay as an editor for Longreads. Margot Harris’s “Under the Knife” opens with a scene of cupcakes shaped like private parts (and goes on to discuss the guilt of having cosmetic surgery as a feminist). What a privilege, I thought at […]
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Neither Here Nor There
“For most of my lifetime, Flushing was the humble immigrant enclave that could.”
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Piecing Together My Father’s Murder
“I was too young to remember what happened to my dad, and no one explained it to me. So I tried to assemble the story myself.”
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Is a New Kind of Religion Forming on the Internet?
“The religion of the internet posits questions like, ‘what’s the harm in believing?’ and ‘why shouldn’t I be prepared for the worst?’ The deeper you go, the harder those questions are to answer.”
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Death of a (Really Good) Salesman
“He was a powerful executive at some of the best companies in the world. Then he started robbing banks.”
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Ingenious Librarians
“A group of 1970s campus librarians foresaw our world of distributed knowledge and research, and designed search tools for it.”
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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
This week, our editors recommend longreads by Kelsey Vlamis, Brian Feldman, Skip Hollandsworth, Tessa Somberg, and Alison Espach.
