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Best of 2022: All of our No. 5 Story Picks

by Longreads December 29, 2022December 16, 2022

All the stories we’ve selected as number five in our weekly Top 5 newsletter.

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Cocooning

by Samuel Ernest May 2, 2023February 29, 2024

“In coming out, my life ended. It was a personal apocalypse of many smaller revelations. The struggle that had defined me had reached its denouement of freedom—and what comes after freedom?”

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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week

by Longreads May 13, 2022June 4, 2025

This week, we’re sharing stories from Kerry Howley, Suzanne Cope, Micheli Oliver, Jeff Mao, and Rob Brunner.

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Welcome to Hive

by Danielle Jackson February 27, 2020December 16, 2022

Hive is a new Longreads series about women and the music that has influenced them.

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Removing Beethoven’s Wig: A Classical Music Reading List

by Aaron Gilbreath July 15, 2020November 25, 2022

Classical music is more than dead Europeans in wigs, starched collars, and stuffy concert halls.
What classical music is, where it’s going, and what it still can be.

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Life in the Slow Lane

by Olivia Potts November 17, 2022February 28, 2024

Olivia Potts | Longreads | November 2022 | 16 minutes (4,649 words) It’s six in the morning, and Robert Booth has already been on the road for three hours. Sitting alongside him in the cab of his lorry (the British term for a truck) is Louis, Robert’s small dog, a Jack Russell-chihuahua mix, and a washing-up bowl […]