The iconic comic strip may seem simple, but its central metaphor has proven impossible to replicate.
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Best of 2023: All of Our Number One Story Picks
Every piece we selected as our top story of the week in 2023, all in one place.
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Deeper Than Pixels: A Reading List on Video Games
Five longreads on the culture and creativity that games have spawned.
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Longreads Best of 2022: All of Our No. 1 Story Picks
All the stories we’ve selected as number one in our weekly Top 5 newsletter.
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Best of 2022: All of our No. 5 Story Picks
All the stories we’ve selected as number five in our weekly Top 5 newsletter.
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Families Like Ours: A Reading List for the Children of Queer Parents
Some of us got to stay with our moms or dads. Others did not.
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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
This week, we’re sharing stories from Abigail Hauslohner, Roberto Lovato, Bathsheba Demuth, Oliver Milman, and Ryan Hockensmith.
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The Heart Wing
The muscle that never stops, until the very end. Is your heart a hardworking pump or a mystic miracle?
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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
This week, we’re sharing stories from Becca Andrews, Désiré Nimubona, Jon Mooallem, Jesse Lee Kercheval, and Kathryn Borel.
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Our Braided Bread
In my native New York, I don’t feel the need to perfume the air around me with the sweet scent of challah. But here in Iowa, there is a void I need to fill.
