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Posted inEssays & Criticism, Feature, Nonfiction, Story
The Good Bad Wives of Ozark and House of Cards
What if a TV antihero and his wife were partners instead of rivals?
Posted inNonfiction
How Do You Move Past a Dad?
Pamela Adlon’s Better Things is not a riff on the antihero show so much as it is an antidote to it.
Posted inBusiness & Tech, Nonfiction, Quote Posts, Quotes
China’s Communist Government Has a Strong Hold on Chinese Corporations
China’s largest e-commerce company is not only changing the way people in China shop, but how they think about commerce and each other in a Communist country.
Posted inNonfiction
Longreads Best of 2020: All of Our No. 1 Story Picks
Here’s every story that was chosen as No. 1 in our weekly Top 5 email.
Posted inStory
Ten Outstanding Short Stories to Read in 2021
Pravesh Bhardwaj read and and shared 304 short stories on the #longreads Twitter hashtag in 2020. Here are his favorites.
Posted inStory
Welcome to Hive
Hive is a new Longreads series about women and the music that has influenced them.
Posted inEditor's Pick
There’s a global movement of Facebook vigilantes who hunt pedophiles
“Pedophile hunting” or “creep catching” via Facebook is a contemporary version of a phenomenon as old as time: the humiliating act of public punishment. Criminologists even view it as a new expression of the town-square execution. But it’s also clearly a product of its era, a messy amalgam of influences such as reality TV and […]
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Longreads Best of 2020: Arts and Culture
Our top editors’ picks in arts and culture writing this year.
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Longreads Best of 2020: Writing on COVID-19
Our top story picks in COVID-19 reporting this year.
