This week, we’re sharing stories from Simon van Zuylen-Wood, Elizabeth Weil, Jeannette Cooperman, Ryan Katz, and Madeleine Watts.
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Wikipedia Is the Last Best Place on the Internet
What happens when you give thousands of pedants a place online to let loose the full force of their passions? Something flawed, but beautiful.
Deeper Than Pixels: A Reading List on Video Games
Five longreads on the culture and creativity that games have spawned.
The Digital Security Threat Inside Jameson Rich’s Body
“It’s a feeling instead of living as a guinea pig for an opaque set of private interests, and a feeling that I can’t trust an industry that would ever put unsecure devices inside patients in the first place.”
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.
Present Tense: The Long Shadow of an Eating Disorder
Eating disorders never truly go away. They just go quiet. For a while.
The Bad Thing
Sometimes the most haunting part of trauma isn’t what happened—it’s wondering what could have happened if you hadn’t trusted your gut.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
This week, we’re sharing stories from Nathan Thrall, H. Claire Brown, Alexander Chee, Jean Garnett, and Erica Lenti.
People Are Dying After Joining a ‘Pro-Choice’ Suicide Forum. How Much Is the Site to Blame?
“Loss survivors are demanding an end to the site, and provoking a conversation about how little we know about the internet and suicide risk.”

