“As reading declines and self-censorship grows, bookshops are shuttering in the city once hailed as the Arab world’s publishing capital.”
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There Is No Point in My Being Other Than Honest with You: On Toni Morrison’s Rejection Letters
“Above all else, Morrison’s rejection letters focus on craft—that is, on the experience of reading a work under review.”
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Are Memories Transferable — or Edible?
“In the 1960s, worm-training experiments and their strange implications captivated the nation.”
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Our Best Of 2025 Is Here
Next week we’ll be sharing our favorite reads across several categories next week; first, though, we’re publishing a series of essays from your trusty Longreads editors, reflecting on our reading over the past year.
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Announcing Our 2025 Member Drive
It’s easy to think that thoughtful longform journalism is an endangered species. We refuse to believe that—and we need your help.
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I’d Like to Report a Murder
“Lauren Oyler and Brandon Taylor talk to hannah baer about the dark art of literary takedowns.”
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Monumental Tiny News
“The triumph of Lucy Lippard’s El Puente, which is as engaged with the past of a New Mexican village as it is with daily life.”
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The Journalist Who the Nazis Could Not Silence
No one has ever received more nominations for the Nobel Peace Prize than Carl von Ossietzky. This is his story.
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Days of the Jackal
How Andrew Wylie turned serious literature into big business.
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What ‘Game of Thrones’ Did to the Media
“For a crucial decade in print media’s transition to the internet, HBO’s fantasy series was a boon in traffic… for everyone. But what happened when every publication started chasing the same thing?”
