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Posted inCurrent Events, Nonfiction, Quotes

Meet ‘The Mooch,’ Your New White House Communications Director

by heymarkarms July 21, 2017October 19, 2022

The money manager who once trashed Trump now has a job in the White House.

I'm so good!
Posted inCommentary, Nonfiction, Sports

Why We Love to Hate Tom Brady

by Tricia Romano January 31, 2018October 19, 2022

The Gwyneth Paltrow of the NFL must be stopped.

Posted inBlog Post, Nonfiction

StrawberryGate: Why Does Tom Brady Insist He Has Never Eaten a Strawberry?

by Matt Giles February 6, 2017October 19, 2022

The truth is out there.

Posted inNonfiction, Reading List, Top 5

The Top 5 Longreads of the Week

by Longreads June 24, 2016October 19, 2022

Our favorite stories of the week as chosen by the Longreads editorial team.

Posted inBlog Post, Nonfiction

What’s in a Name: 2016 Presidential Campaign Edition

by Longreads May 5, 2016October 19, 2022

Hillary, Bernie, Trump, Cruz. Discussing the politics of first and last names used in the 2016 election.

Posted inNonfiction, Quotes

Brussels Playbook: Meet the Mike Allen of Europe

by juliawick June 23, 2015October 19, 2022

A 35-year-old Australian, [Ryan] Heath rises every morning at 4.30 to finish off the day’s Brussels Playbook, which in only a month and a half already goes out to almost 40,000 people. (The site itself received, in May, about 1.7m page views, from just over 700,000 unique visitors. The original Politico receives 7m monthly uniques, though […]

Posted inNonfiction, Reading List, Top 5

The Top 5 Longreads of the Week

by Longreads January 30, 2015October 19, 2022

Our favorite stories of the week, featuring, The New Yorker, Die Zeit, Jezebel, The New York Times, and Slate.

Posted inNonfiction, Quotes

Dinner at Tom Brady & Gisele Bündchen’s House

by heymarkarms January 28, 2015October 19, 2022

Mark Leibovich, in the New York Times, gets a rare look inside the life of New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady, who’s now 37 in a league where few play past the age of 40. The result is some obsessive habits about caring for his body and the food he eats: Every morning in the […]

Posted inUncategorized

Longreads Member Pick: 'This Town,' by Mark Leibovich

by Longreads August 6, 2013October 19, 2022

This week’s Member Pick is from the new book by Mark Leibovich, the chief national correspondent for The New York Times Magazine and a writer who’s been featured on Longreads frequently in the past. This Town, published by Penguin’s Blue Rider Press, is Leibovich’s insider tale of life inside the Beltway bubble of Washington, D.C., and […]

Posted inNonfiction

Longreads Best of 2013: 22 Outstanding Book Chapters We Featured This Year

by Longreads December 24, 2013October 13, 2022

This year we featured not only the best stories from the web, but also great chapters from new and classic books. Here’s a complete guide to every book chapter we featured this year, both for free and for Longreads Members:

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