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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week

by Longreads June 6, 2025August 6, 2025

Showcasing stories from Katya Apekina, Jonathan W. Rosen, Robert Sanchez, Eric Levitz, and Natalie Marlin.

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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week

by Longreads October 2, 2020October 19, 2022

This week, we’re sharing stories from Mike Giglio, Omar Mouallem, Katherine Laidlaw, Dave Daley, and Tim Greiving.

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Best of 2023: All of Our Number One Story Picks

by Longreads December 26, 2023

Every piece we selected as our top story of the week in 2023, all in one place.

All Hail Veruca Salt: The Oral History of American Thighs

by Aaron Gilbreath September 26, 2019October 19, 2022

With unprecedented speed after forming, the Chicago band recorded and released an album whose sound helped define the early 90s alternative era. This is the album’s story, timed to the album’s 25th anniversary.

An Oral History of Blade Runner’s 2019 Los Angeles, Because the Future Has Arrived

by michelleweber November 7, 2019October 19, 2022

But we still don’t have flying cars.

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Harrowing Outdoor Adventure and the Week’s Top 5

by Longreads June 6, 2025November 12, 2025

“Traveling the entire length was the equivalent of climbing and descending more than eighteen Mount Everests over a distance equivalent to nearly fifty marathons.” I’m powerless against outdoor adventure stories. I love tales of arduous trips through harsh landscapes, ones where Mother Nature can be fickle, casting weather spells that bring surprise, danger, and a […]

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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week

by Longreads September 18, 2020January 8, 2025

This week, we’re sharing stories from Abrahm Lustgarten, Greg Jaffe, Omari Weekes and Elias Rodriques, Jeremy Lybarger, and Cat Cardenas and Christian Wallace.