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Things That Able Me
Christy Tending | Longreads | February 2, 2023 | 14 minutes (3,768 words) There are things that able me. A chair. One person speaking to me at a time. Shoes that are not cute, but spare me nerve pain. A hot bath with epsom salts: so hot it would scald most, but my skin is like […]
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Present Tense: The Long Shadow of an Eating DisorderÂ
Eating disorders never truly go away. They just go quiet. For a while.
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Keeping the Focus on the People: An Interview with Joe Kloc
It took eight years to write the story of Richardson Bay’s boat community, known as the anchor-outs.
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Living Off the Grid in California’s Coastal Waters
Living off the grid isn’t just for landlubbers.
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Madness, Melancholy, or Murder: An Ancient English Farm’s 50-Year-Old MysteryÂ
Andrew Chamings returns to his childhood farmland to investigate the mystifying deaths of the Luxton siblings. What really happened down that dark country lane?
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Longreads Best of 2022: All of Our No. 1 Story Picks
All the stories we’ve selected as number one in our weekly Top 5 newsletter.
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The 19th-Century Hipster Who Pioneered Modern Sportswriting
More than a century before GoPro, Thomas Stevens’ around-the-world bike ride vaulted first-person “sports porn” into the mainstream.
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Longreads Best of 2021: All of Our No. 1 Story Picks
Here’s every story that was chosen as No. 1 in our weekly Top 5 email.
