This week, we’re sharing stories from Josefa Velasquez, Wufei Yu, Tom Foster, Tim Requarth, and Ellen Ruppel Shell.
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Not Serious People: A ‘Succession’ Reading List
Great writing begets great writing — and the commentary around the HBO smash hit is some of the best around.
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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
This week, we’re sharing stories from Maurice Chammah, Jeff Weiss, Rasha Elass, Danielle Tcholakian, and Lila Shapiro.
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Longreads Best of 2019: Crime Reporting
We asked writers and editors to choose some of their favorite stories of the year. Here is the best in crime reporting.
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Life in the Slow Lane
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 […]
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Judge a Book Not By its Gender
Lisa Whittington-Hill suggests there’s a distinct gender bias in celebrity memoirs. Where female celebrities are expected to expose all, male writers get to write about whatever they want.
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The Substance of Silence: A Reading List About Hermits
Humans are social creatures, and loneliness can be debilitating — yet, many have discovered solace in the solitary life.
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Longreads Best of 2020: Writing on COVID-19
Our top story picks in COVID-19 reporting this year.
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Happy Birthday Tom: A Tom Cruise Reading List
Tom Cruise is about to turn 60 — time for a look back at the life of a master maverick.
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Voices of Rebirth: A Reading List on Being Indigenous in America
Our lives are so much more than you could possibly imagine.
