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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
Recommending notable stories by Kori Suzuki, D. Watkins, Mike Scalise, Emily Polk, and Vassi Chamberlain.
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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
Featuring stories by Jenny Kleeman, Lucy Schiller, Michael Gardner, Emily Raboteau, and Angie Martoccio.
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Disposable Heroes
“Christine Blasey Ford’s memoir captures the hazards of ‘coming forward.’”
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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
Featuring stories about celebrity look-alikes, siblings, desert living, philanthrocapitalism, and life inside a legal brothel.
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Planet TikTok
“The app’s young user base, fragmented content, and amped-up algorithm helped it spread around the world. If the US bans it, what would be lost?”
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‘An Ass-Backward Sherlock Holmes’
“Over seven seasons on NBC, Columbo put a charming, shambolic gloss on the crime show. Now it has a new generation of imitators.”
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My Secret Police Files
“What did they really know about my activism, the men who could decide whether I lived or died?”
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Invisible Ink: At the CIA’s Creative Writing Group
“When an organization has, say, financed the overthrow of the government of Guatemala, you would think there might be a speaking fee.”
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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
Sharing stories from John Woodrow Cox, Sarah Blaskey, and Matt McClain; Daphne Chouliaraki Milner and Marcia Bjornerud; Susan Choi; Henry Wismayer; and Susannah Pratt.
