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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week

by Longreads October 6, 2017June 4, 2025

This week, we’re sharing stories from David Dobbs, Rachel Aviv, Max Read, Holly George-Warren, and Bianca Bosker.

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Longreads Best of 2018: Essays

by Longreads December 11, 2018October 19, 2022

We asked writers and editors to choose some of their favorite stories of the year in various categories. Here is the best in essays.

Death at a Penn State Fraternity

by michelleweber October 12, 2017October 19, 2022

Tim Piazza fought for life for 12 hours while his Beta Theta Pi brothers alternatively did nothing, or continued to abuse him — and it’s all on video.

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Will Big Pharma Help Save Some of the Oldest Marine Life on Earth?

by Aaron Gilbreath May 16, 2018October 19, 2022

To save threatened shorebirds, one pharmaceutical biologist had to figure out how to save the crabs they depend on.

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I’m Not Queer to Make Friends

by Logan Scherer May 14, 2019March 31, 2023

By Trying on the Role of Reality TV Villain, Logan Scherer Confronts His Gay Shame

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The 25 Most Popular Longreads Exclusives of 2019

by Longreads December 30, 2019October 19, 2022

The original reporting, personal essays, columns, and collaborations that were our most-read stories of the year.

Annie Dillard’s Classic Essay: ‘Total Eclipse’

by Sari Botton August 16, 2017October 19, 2022

Dillard’s 1982 personal essay — excerpted by The Atlantic from her new collection, The Abundance: Narrative Essays Old and New. She writes in exquisite detail about the haunting, surreal experience of witnessing the last solar eclipse, on February 26th, 1979, after driving five hours inland in Washington State to catch it from a hill top.