“Peering in, I see that last week’s eggs are now chicks. Tiny bright-yellow beaks, mouths opening and closing silently. This is the magic.”
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The Placeless and the Privileged
On the macro forces that have made digital nomadism something more powerful, and more sinister, than just another “lifestyle choice.”
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Longreads Best of 2020: Crime Reporting
Our top picks in Crime Reporting for 2020.
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I Will Always Love You: A Dolly Parton Reading List
Happy birthday, Dolly Parton! Here are seven longreads about the American singer-songwriter.
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The Fracking Lottery
“When I moved to Billtown, I worried most about whether fracking tainted groundwater. By the time I left the area, my biggest concern was whether the liberty granted to citizens to lease their land, or to otherwise act in ways that limits others’ access to environmental goods, taints democracy.”
Posted inReading List
Longreads Best of 2018: Science and Technology
We asked writers and editors to choose some of their favorite stories of the year in various categories. Here is the best in science and tech.
Posted inNonfiction, Top 5
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
This week, we’re sharing stories from Jane Mayer, Patricia Lockwood, Rachel E. Gross, and Theresa Okokon.
Posted inStory, Uncategorized
Free Solo
On the return of ‘Veronica Mars’ and the power of the solitary woman.
Posted inEditor's Pick
Why America’s Black Mothers and Babies Are in a Life-or-Death Crisis
Reporter Linda Villarosa reports on the racial disparities in health care that contribute to black women being three to four times as likely to die from pregnancy-related causes as their white counterparts, and black infants being more than twice as likely to die as white infants. Threaded through the piece is the story of Simone […]
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The Secrets of a Hidden Diary
A hidden diary, a love story, and a mystery.
