Showcasing stories from Julia Webster Ayuso, Abe Beame, Tracy Thompson, Will Boast, and Gary Grimes.
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The Safest Place
“In five years Dante McFallo went from White House honoree to dying in a hail of bullets on New Year’s Day.”
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
This week’s edition highlights stories by Elissa Nadworny and Claire Harbage, Thomas Lake, Jeff Sharlet, Jasmine Attia, and Brett Martin.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
This week we have stories from Sarah Miller, James D. Walsh, Hanif Abdurraqib, Gabrielle Drolet, and Jeremiah David.
The Longreads Questionnaire, Featuring Rebecca Solnit
The author of The Beginning Comes After the End talks about jackrabbits, her own “informational hypervigilance,” and the one word she won’t stop using.
They Played Football as Children. Now Their Families Mourn.
They gave up the game after high school, but the damage seemingly was already done. Now, their families mourn and look for answers.
Victoria Amelina: Ukraine and the Meaning of Home
“Hopefully, I will have turned out to be one of the worst investments the Russian Federation ever made.”
It’s So Sublime, and Our Top 5
“When I listened, I didn’t know if it was something I entered, or something that entered me. If it was within me or if it was me. Do you remember being 16 and loving a song? Of course you do. It felt like that. It felt like everything.” This week, we’re featuring “On (the) Sublime,” […]
Both Sides of The Mirror
Introducing The Longreads Questionnaire, featuring Vauhini Vara.


