Five stories that demonstrate we’re living in the golden age of the personal hoax.
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Dress You Up in My Love
Doree Shafrir reflects on how Halloween changed for her after struggling with infertility.
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This Month in Podcasts: Innocent Until Proven Grifty
Longreads turns 10 in two months! @Longreads is an Aries?!
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In Your Dreams: A Reading List
In dreams, everything looks familiar but wrong somehow. Here are six stories about what happens between sleep and wakefulness.
Posted inEditor's Pick
1999 Was The Last Time Everything Was Fine
A personal essay nostalgically looking back at 1999, a buoyant time for the economy and publishing–before the bursting of the dot com bubble, a stock market crash, and the plane crash that killed John F. Kennedy Jr., Carolyn Bessett Kennedy, and her sister.
Posted inNonfiction, Reading List
America’s HGTV Obsession: A Reading List
These longreads explore some of HGTV’s most popular home and lifestyle shows, from House Hunters to Fixer Upper.
Posted inEditor's Pick
Head Over Heels
Doree Shafrir goes inside Steve Madden’s well-heeled empire (his eponymous shoes made over $1 billion last year).
Best of 2015
Our 2015 collection of end-of-year lists. Guest curators include Ann Friedman, Roxane Gay, Leslie Jamison, Glenn Stout, Jia Tolentino, and more.
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Longreads Best of 2015: Under-Recognized Stories
Stories that deserved more attention in 2015.
