I had no idea that the hot, tingly pain of blood returning to a frozen extremity is called the screaming barfies, until I read “What Is a Body For?” by Diana Saverin.
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Our Most-Read Longreads Originals of 2023
The 10 top-performing essays published on Longreads this year.
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Hush-Hush Affair
“How the NDA became the defining legal document of our time.”
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There She Goes: A Reading List on Women Adventurers
The women you’ll find on top of the world.
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A “Super” Walk of Contradictions (and Our Top 5)
“To my right is one of the largest manmade toxic holes on Earth. To my left, shelves of coal-colored slag piled twenty feet high. And underfoot, ten thousand miles of poisoned shafts swimming with ghosts.” Hello from Berkeley, California. Our family loves to explore the city’s parks, where we can hike through redwood forests in […]
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Keep This to Yourself
“I am carried, cared for, not yet touched by our culture’s casting of my body as other, as divergent. It is less like memory and more like myth.”
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Best of 2022: Reader Favorites
You’ve heard from the Longreads’ editors, now it’s the turn of our readers.
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Out on the Trail, Deep Online, and the Week’s Top 5
“Eating, even eating junk food—sometimes especially eating junk food—is not just a good idea but potentially the difference between life and death, or at the very least the difference between an enjoyable experience and a grueling one. No one has ever opened up a packet of Oreos on a mountaintop and said, ‘I’m being so bad.’” […]
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The Storykeeper: A Conversation with Svetlana Alexievich
A conversation with Svetlana Alexievich, by José Vergara.
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A Scammer Who Tricks Instagram Into Banning Influencers Has Never Been Identified. We May Have Found Him.
“They say Meta failed to help them and to take OBN and other account manipulators seriously.”
