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I Nearly Died Drowning. Here’s What It’s Like to Survive.

by Maggie Slepian April 2, 2024December 17, 2024

On coming to terms with a near-death experience.

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Best of 2022: Personal Essays

by Longreads December 8, 2022December 9, 2022

Five notable personal essays published this year, on friendship, loss, war, endings, and metaphors.

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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week

by Longreads September 16, 2022October 19, 2022

This week, our editors recommend stories by Michael Wilson, Joseph Bien-Kahn, Jason Anthony, AC Shelton, and Tom Breihan.

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Girl Genius

by Susannah Felts April 27, 2023February 27, 2024

She will grow up and leave me and yet never leave me; she will be mine forever, a being I shaped.

Culture

The Death Artist

by Maggie Donahue October 25, 2022February 23, 2024

Her medium: the cremains of departed loved ones. Her mission: to change your perspective on the end of life.

Nonfiction, Top 5

The Top 5 Longreads of the Week

by Longreads June 11, 2021October 19, 2022

This week, we’re sharing stories from Jesse Eisinger, Jeff Ernsthausen, and Paul Kiel, Arno Kopecky, Isaac Würmann, Vanessa Angélica Villarreal, and Laura Spinney.

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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week

by Longreads July 1, 2022October 19, 2022

This week, our editors recommend notable features and essays by Jackie Flynn Mogensen, Justin Heckert, Gloria Liu, Sharon Levy, and Mychal Denzel Smith.