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Three characters from the HBO show "Succession" — Shiv, Kendall, and Roman Roy — sit around a table with serious looks on their faces.

Not Serious People: A ‘Succession’ Reading List

by Chloe Walker May 25, 2023February 27, 2024

Great writing begets great writing — and the commentary around the HBO smash hit is some of the best around.

The Confessions of Marcus Hutchins, the Hacker Who Saved the Internet

by Krista Stevens May 13, 2020October 19, 2022

“At 22, he single-handedly put a stop to the worst cyberattack the world had ever seen. Then he was arrested by the FBI. This is his untold story.”

Half a plaster mask of a human face and a syringe — both magenta — sit against a bright blue background

Reading List

Paging Dr. House: A Medical Mysteries Reading List

by Lisa Bubert March 28, 2023February 27, 2024

Once upon a time, I wanted to be a doctor. Never mind my terrible grades in all things science. Never mind that I decided this in my second year of college, after deciding that the music school that I’d wanted for years wasn’t for me. It was 2006. It was the age of Dr. Gregory […]

Feature

Life in the Slow Lane

by Olivia Potts November 17, 2022February 28, 2024

Olivia Potts | Longreads | November 2022 | 16 minutes (4,649 words) It’s six in the morning, and Robert Booth has already been on the road for three hours. Sitting alongside him in the cab of his lorry (the British term for a truck) is Louis, Robert’s small dog, a Jack Russell-chihuahua mix, and a washing-up bowl […]

Your Face Is Not Your Own

by Seyward Darby March 25, 2021October 19, 2022

“When a secretive start-up scraped the internet to build a facial-recognition tool, it tested a legal and ethical limit — and blew the future of privacy in America wide open.”

Nonfiction

Best of 2022: Profiles

by Longreads December 22, 2022June 4, 2025

A great profile accomplishes the nearly impossible by making you feel like you truly know someone you’ve never met. It’s a feat of empathy and insight, the kind of alchemy that turns reporting into rapport. The five examples here span all manner of tone and subject, from victims of gun violence to digital charlatans, but […]