An exploration of scale, limits, and care—featuring our new essay “By All Measures” and this week’s Top 5 reads.
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What Survives
“It’s normal to want to repair what’s broken, folly to repair what breaks us and keeps on breaking.”
Posted inEditor's Pick
One Man’s Plan to Resurrect the Animal Species We Can’t Save
“On a crackly phone call in March, I ask Church about the ethical quandaries of bringing animals back from extinction. Why bring back a cloned animal, rather than save a species that still exists?”
Posted inFeature, The Atavist Magazine
‘What Kind of Man Would Abandon His Family By Pretending To Be Dead?’
A father’s disappearance, dark family secrets, and the hunt for Bigfoot.
Posted inEditor's Pick
In Alaska, A Mystery Over Disappearing Whales
“Sam Ellis his colleagues have shown that killer whales with living grandmothers are more likely to survive than those without.”
Posted inTop 5
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
Showcasing stories from Fatima Syed, Jack Crosbie, Charlotte Higgins, Sonya Bennett-Brandt, and Camille Bromley.
Posted inEditor's Pick
The Hibernator’s Guide to the Galaxy
“Scientists are on the verge of figuring out how to put humans in a state of suspended animation. It could be the key to colonizing Mars.”
Posted inThe Atavist Magazine
The Good Catholics of Buffalo
With thousands of US soldiers dying in Vietnam, a righteous group of young New Yorkers embarked on a secret mission to bring the war machine to its knees.
Posted inReading List
Return to the Saddle Club: A Reading List on Horse Girls
Celebrating the girls with an equine obsession.
Posted inQuestionnaire
The Longreads Questionnaire, Featuring R. O. Kwon
The author of The Incendiaries and Exhibit on the bed as refuge, the power of movement and exercise, a life of writing, and more.
