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Disposable Heroes
“Christine Blasey Ford’s memoir captures the hazards of ‘coming forward.’”
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Our Top 5: Cultivated Meat, Scammers, and More
Three favorite five-star reads and our Top 5.
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Her Greatest Hits
“Maybe it’s only when you don’t know what you are listening for that you find what you were waiting all along to discover.”
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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
After the flood, twisted roles, the joy of emptiness, data disasters, and family road trips.
Posted inQuestionnaire
The Longreads Questionnaire, Featuring Erika Hayasaki
The award-winning journalist behind The Reported Essay newsletter on writing, reading, and making connections.
Posted inEditor's Pick
Getting Sober Again
Natalie Lima recounts relapsing during the pandemic, halting two years of sobriety with cheap vodka in “less than the length of a song.” At Catapult, she shares the winding path of her recovery and what she missed most during her seven-month relapse. What I missed most, during this relapse, was my writing practice—a pursuit that […]
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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
This week we’re highlighting stories from Tom Lamont, Charlotte Alter, Dženana Vucic, John Paul Scotto, and Devin Friedman.
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The Grammar of Exile
A writer tells the story of teaching English to asylum-seekers in Rome, and meditates on the different “grammars” a person must learn when they’ve fled their home in search of a new life: The guys understood what, where, how, and when. But why, the word itself, stopped us dead. Not every language has its equivalent. (Italian, French, and Arabic use […]
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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
Showcasing stories from Megan O’Grady, Alexander Sammon, Alaina Demopoulos, Blair Braverman, and Jack Crosbie.
