Five notable personal essays published this year, on friendship, loss, war, endings, and metaphors.
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The Star Essay
“…a writer strives to constellate, to make sense of seemingly disparate and unrelated notes or events.”
Posted inNonfiction
Best of 2022: Reported Essays
Our list of some of the great reported essays published this year includes reads on grief, veganism, the geology of Mexico City, and British real estate.
Posted inEssays & Criticism
Best of 2021: Personal Essays
The personal essays that we can’t stop thinking about.
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How Many Errorrs Are in This Essay?
An essay to make you chuckle, and think. Ed Simon explores some of the copy mistakes made throughout history — and then shifts onto the mistakes that make us, and our very universe, exist. Homeoarchy is the accidental deletion of lines; metathesis the reversing of letters in a wrod. An entirely more delightful flaw can […]
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A Longreads Collection of Catapult Stories
A reading list of essays we loved from Catapult magazine.
Posted inAnnouncements, Nonfiction, Writing
Calling All Writers: Pitch Us Your Essays
Do you have an idea for a Longreads essay? Now is the time to share it.
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Our Most-Read Longreads Originals of 2022
These essays and reported features are our most-read stories of the year.
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‘Exposed as the Mother Who Cannot Weave’: Grace Loh Prasad on Family and Community
In a recent essay, Grace Loh Prasad muses on motherhood, the bond of family, and finding community.
