“This year, the alert system for defending the planet against incoming space rocks was activated for the first time. It won’t be the last.”
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‘We Have Broken the Wall of Fear’
“Iranian protesters on what brings them back to the streets four weeks in.”
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Two Weeks in Tehran
Mass protest is often provoked by a specific humiliation, but the underlying oppression explains why unrest races through society.
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The Fight of My Life
“When my wife and daughter were killed in Iran’s downing of Flight PS752, my life was thrown into total darkness.”
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Ride Sounds
“Going deaf changed my relationship with cycling, even after I regained my hearing.”
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Taken and Told
A filmmaker was producing a documentary series on the Iran hostage crisis. Then her father went missing overseas.
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‘Iran Was Our Hogwarts’: My Childhood Between Tehran and Essex
“Every summer, our nervous little nuclear family became the heart of a sprawling community. Parties were thrown in our honour. Relatives usually separated by social status or ancient feuds broke bread together for the first time that year.”
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The Food of America and Our Top 5
As Thanksgiving and gluttony approach, I’ve been thinking about what foods represent America and how eating can shape a sense of identity—a theme past Longreads writers have been drawn to.
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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
In this edition, we recommend stories from Eli Saslow, Mitchell S. Jackson, Adam Ciralsky, Heidi Lasher, and Noah Rawlings.
