This week, we’re sharing stories from bell hooks, Christopher Curtis, Kate Connolly, David Ramsey, and Henry Grabar.
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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
This week, we’re sharing stories from George Chidi, Chantha Nguon and Kim Green, Poppy Sebag-Montefiore, Stephanie Hayes, and Brianne Garrett.
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What Lies Beneath: The Secrets of France’s Top Serial Killer Expert
Stéphane Bourgoin is a bestselling author in France, known for his expertise in serial killers and extensive interviews with more than 70 of them. Then a group of strangers began to investigate his past.
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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
This week, we’re sharing stories from Laura Nahmias, Victor Luckerson, Arianne Shahvisi, Roberto José Andrade Franco, and Apoorva Tadepalli.
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The Longreads Questionnaire, Featuring Ibram X. Kendi
The Stamped and How to Be an Antiracist author on the superpower he’d like to have, the outlets he likes to read, and his latest work, Chain of Ideas.
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Holograms of the Holocaust (and Our Top 5)
“Over many decades, my grandmother gave responses to thousands of questions, wrote tens of thousands of words, and spoke for hours and hours while tapes rolled. She would be, in other words, the perfect candidate for AI reanimation.” In my household, the transition from summer to fall has been tough. Lately, to help my daughter […]
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Exploring Public Lands and the Week’s Top 5
“Though we were only a few miles into our walk, already the surprise of my surroundings was overwhelming. The surreal lakebeds. The pink skies. Beauty Peak. The pronghorn. We were left in one of those mindless trances that comes when nature completely engulfs you. No amount of planning or research can prepare you for an […]
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Desert Hours
“There are moments when I’m happier now than I remember being very often in the past, though these moments gleam out of a new solitude.”
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A Year in Reading: A Shift in Perspective
The stories that sparked awe and made me think differently in 2024.
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What Waiting Is, Ibram X. Kendi, and Our Top 5
“What is it, precisely, that you work for? What real goodness do you seek at the end of your own long line? “
