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My Unlikely Existence
Is AI helping prospective parents game the fertility lottery? Should it?
The Wayfinders
The Marshall Islands’ first national soccer team discovers what “home” can mean—on a field in Arkansas.
Tragedy in the Making: A Reading List About Unnatural Disasters
A list of stories that dig into the “ingredients” of recent natural hazard-related disasters.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
This week, we’re sharing stories from John Woodrow Cox, Nathaniel Penn, Len Necefer, Aymann Ismail, and Michael Venutolo-Mantovani.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
This week, we’re sharing stories from Hannah Dreier, Doug Bock Clark, Samanth Subramanian, Michael Hobbes, Jonathan Cohn, Kate Sheppard, Alex Kaufman, Delphine D’Amora, Chris D’Angelo, and Emily Peck, and Kris Willcox and Michelle Ruiz.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
This week, we’re sharing stories from Abrahm Lustgarten, Greg Jaffe, Omari Weekes and Elias Rodriques, Jeremy Lybarger, and Cat Cardenas and Christian Wallace.
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.
Best of 2024: All Our Number One Story Picks
Every story that appeared in the number one slot in our Weekly Top 5, all in one place.
The Expanding Table: Honoring Palestinian Culinary Tradition in Arkansas
For one baker and educator in Northwest Arkansas, food is a connection to her family’s roots in Gaza—and an essential way to share the stories of their culture.

