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Best of 2022: Reader Favorites

by Longreads December 27, 2022December 27, 2022

You’ve heard from the Longreads’ editors, now it’s the turn of our readers.

Posted inNonfiction, Top 5

The Top 5 Longreads of the Week

by Longreads December 21, 2018October 19, 2022

This week, we’re sharing stories from Casey Parks, Cathy Newman, Zach Baron, Molly Priddy, and Christopher Solomon.

Posted inNonfiction, Quote Posts, Quotes, Sports

‘I Don’t Know What Else to Do. So I Run.’

by Krista Stevens December 19, 2018October 19, 2022

“You see that you can never go back. And with this knowledge a peculiar grief descends.”

Posted inNonfiction, Quotes

Meet Spitty, the Whippet Who Holds Five World Records

by Krista Stevens June 21, 2018October 19, 2022

“Science has proven the impossibility of the human brain to register self-pity, or maunder on about the generally sorry state of things, while in the presence of canine bellyflops.”

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