Longtime contributor Pravesh Bhardwaj read and shared 276 short stories on the #longreads Twitter hashtag in 2021. Here are his favorites.
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Less Work, More Friends, No Consequences
Workaholics burn the midnight oil, while the rich and powerful fail up.
Working To Live Often Means Giving Up Your Life
You can’t have work-life balance when work dictates the balance.
“I Had to Face the Blues Every Day”
Soul and gospel singer Candi Staton let no hardship stand in the way of her voice, one that helped define the music of her generation.
Editor’s Roundtable: Antidotes to Loneliness (Podcast)
Longreads editors discuss stories in The New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic, and a collaboration between Texas Monthly and The Texas Tribune.
How To Embrace Professional Decline
As we age we move past our professional peak. What can life offer as we enter this downturn?
Searching for the Mountaintop in Upstate New York
A family confronts its racial past along the Appalachian Trail.
MH370 Five Years Later: Will We Ever Know What Happened?
“The idea that a sophisticated machine, with its modern instruments and redundant communications, could simply vanish seems beyond the realm of possibility.”
Longreads Best of 2020: Writing on COVID-19
Our top story picks in COVID-19 reporting this year.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
This week, we’re sharing stories from Sandra Sidi, Lena Solow, Aubrey Hirsch, Noelle Mateer, and Amanda Hess.

