“I worried about his ability to fit in. But then he fell in love with Russian — and on a trip to Central Asia, he flourished.”
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Surfing the American Dream
“There’s a new fad in the sport I love. I should have hated it. Deep in a mega-mall, I surprised myself by how much it stirred in me.”
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My Dad Made the Biggest Jewelled Egg in the World. The Obsession Would Destroy his Marriage, Family and Fortune
“The mad venture – which my mother nicknamed ‘your father’s ego’ – would swallow my childhood.”
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Best of 2025: Our Most Popular Originals of the Year
Our 10 most-read Longreads essays of 2025.
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Gift Thinking
“The relationships, abundance, and reciprocity of nature’s economy.”
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The Road to Becoming Enough
I began, if not to turn away from the mythical notion of a man to “complete” me, to accept that there was no love out there for me. I chose mountains instead.
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Tom Junod Finally Reckons with What It Means to Be a Man
“In a long list of classic stories, the legendary magazine writer helped teach readers what masculinity looks like in the 21st century. To write his first book, he had to confront the man who first taught him: his father.”
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Friend or Faux?
“Millions of people are turning to AI for companionship. They are finding the experience surprisingly meaningful, unexpectedly heartbreaking, and profoundly confusing, leaving them to wonder, ‘Is this real? And does that matter?’”
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On Death and Love
“As Melanie Challenger examines the belief in human exceptionalism that has devastated life on this planet, she wonders if our desire to outrun death is hindering our capacity to love.”
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What Death Means to Love and What Love Means to Death
“But perhaps it’s neither here nor there how we think about death. Perhaps the work that must be done is in how we think about life.”
