This week, we’re sharing stories from Emily Bazelon, Alex Ronan, Justine Harman, Emily Harnett, and Sam Leith.
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The Memory Maker
OpenAI’s Sora allowed you to deepfake yourself. Users started to remember things that never happened.
Finding a Path in a Broken System
Thailand is a top destination for gender confirmation surgery. Its success is a symptom of Western failure.
Sleeping with Amazon
Sometimes it’s not who you work with, but who you work for.
Knotty Business: A Delightfully Tangled Reading List on Knots
Six stories on our fascination with knots.
This Week in Books: An Everlasting Meal
The book that’s been the most help to me during lockdown is a book I’ve never read.
The Search for Answers, and the Week’s Top 5
We become better in many ways, but it’s the best writers who give us the information and context required to do so, and let us do the work to get there.
N.K. Jemisin: ‘I am still going to write what I am going to write.’
Hells to the yes, says I.
Longreads Best of 2020: Profiles
Here’s a selection of profiles that resonated with us this year.
One Thing After Another: A Reading List for Lovers & Makers of Lists
Five stories celebrating the power and beauty of lists.


