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Here’s to What’s Real and True: Support Writing that Matters
“It’s becoming rarer to get to work on writing that’s real and true, a story idea conceived by a human brain and reported by a human heart, a piece of writing that helps us understand others, and ourselves, a little better.” While I’ve followed Longreads since it started as a hashtag in 2009, I’m proud […]
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Help Us Stay a Home for the Weird
“Invite writers and readers in—magic will follow.” Six years ago, I published my first essay as an editor for Longreads. Margot Harris’s “Under the Knife” opens with a scene of cupcakes shaped like private parts (and goes on to discuss the guilt of having cosmetic surgery as a feminist). What a privilege, I thought at […]
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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
Notable longform stories written by David Farrier, Luc Rinaldi, Claire Gagné, Jonathan Weiner, and Dave Holmes.
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Bread and Honey
Sometimes, marriage is about learning how to braid the bitter with the sweet.
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The Death of a Superman
“An entirely avoidable problem is killing dozens of homeless people across the country. Why is it being ignored?”
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Maximalisma
“A professor endeavors to separate treasure from trash—before her children have to do it for her.”
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Living In A Lucid Dream
“Recent research on lucid dreams suggests that consciousness exists along a spectrum between sleep and waking, between hallucination and revelation, between dreamworlds and reality.”
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My Brain Finally Broke
“Much of what we see now is fake, and the reality we face is full of horrors. More and more of the world is slipping beyond my comprehension.”
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Trapped in the Tide of Organized Crime
“How Ecuador’s growing armed struggle is affecting its traditional crabbing communities.”
