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Detective Fitbit
Can Fitbit data help to convict the alleged perpetrator of a brutal murder?
This Is Why No One Answers the Phone Anymore
Robocalls are a scourge, and it’s only a matter of time before the technology learns to spoof your mother’s voice.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
This week, we’re sharing stories from Nikole Hannah-Jones and The New York Times Magazine Staff, Melissa del Bosque, Nitasha Tiku, Sarah Gilman, and Tift Merritt.
How to Catch a Cyber Sextortionist
“Staying quiet seemed a reasonable choice.”
Editors Roundtable: 170 Million Pieces of Trash Orbiting the Earth and No One Knows How to Use an Apostrophe (Podcast)
This week, Longreads editors discuss stories in Outside Magazine, Backchannel (WIRED), and The New York Times: Styles.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
This week, we’re sharing stories from E. Jean Carroll, Stephanie Clifford, Robert Macfarlane, Kathryn Miles, and Graphic Staff with Spencer Cliche.
Longreads Best of 2019: Business Writing
We asked writers and editors to choose some of their favorite stories of the year in various categories. Here is the best in business writing.
Longreads Best of 2020: Arts and Culture
Our top editors’ picks in arts and culture writing this year.
Longreads Best of 2020: Writing on COVID-19
Our top story picks in COVID-19 reporting this year.

