“He knew there were a lot of people just like him, irregularly employed, regulars in pubs, the owners of passports and phones and all the right charger leads, only with nowhere stable to live.”
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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
This week, we’re sharing stories from Malcolm Harris, Tom Lamont, Melissa Jeltsen, Moe Tkacik, and Lavinia Spalding.
“This Frenzied, Dirty, Impossible Evacuation”
Londoner Tom Lamont spent months reporting for this GQÂ piece on the ins, outs, and aftermath of the Grenfell Tower disaster.
Trapped: The Grenfell Tower Story
The untold story of what it felt like to fight that fire and to flee it — a story of a thousand impossible decisions and the people who dared to make them.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
This week, we’re sharing stories from Luke O’Brien, Jen Gann, Tom Lamont, Norimitsu Onishi, and Sam Knight.
The Grim Reaper of Pubs
Tom Lamont’s exhaustive 2015 deep-dive on the death of pub culture in England is worth re-reading, considering the role a bar plays within a community.

