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Technology That Lets Us “Speak” to Our Dead Relatives Has Arrived. Are We Ready?

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands December 26, 2022December 14, 2022

“Digital clones of the people we love could forever change how we grieve.”

Posted inEditor's Pick

Why Did Walter Springs Die?

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands December 21, 2022December 28, 2022

“In time, it was almost as if he had never existed at all.”

Posted inEditor's Pick

The Night Raids

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands December 15, 2022December 16, 2022

“A reporter returns to investigate her past and unravel the legacy of the secretive Zero Units.”

Posted inEditor's Pick

Identity Crisis

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands November 30, 2022November 30, 2022

“In a checklist of responses to a large-scale disaster, victim identification comes low down the pecking order.”

Grinnell Point in Glacier National Park highlighted by an eerily-red light.
Posted inFeature

‘That Girl is Going to Get Herself Killed’

by Krista Diamond November 15, 2022November 15, 2022

Krista Diamond | Longreads | November 2022 | 16 minutes (4,342 words) In 2012, I was working at a hotel in Glacier National Park when a man I’d just met invited me for a day of tubing and drinking beer on the river. Little did I know, I would nearly drown in the rapids.  But […]

Collage of black and white portraits of people made with ashes
Posted inCulture

The Death Artist

by Maggie Donahue October 25, 2022November 18, 2022

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

Posted inEditor's Pick

The Mushrooms That Ate Luke Perry

by Peter Rubin September 6, 2022October 19, 2022

As good as the headline is, the piece is even better — an essay about the actor’s afterlife plans that doubles as an elegy for privacy, nostalgia, and everything else we carry with us through this world. His heart, inside his chest, inside the mushroom burial shroud, was pressed against the silty soil left behind by […]

Futuristic cyborg learning about humans. This is entirely 3D generated. All book covers are fictional and made by contributor.
Posted inCuration, Nonfiction, Top 5

The Top 5 Longreads of the Week

by Longreads July 22, 2022October 19, 2022

This week, our editors recommend longreads by Benjamin Wofford, Josh Dzieza, Evan Osnos, Alice Wong & Ed Yong, and Dan Kois.

Posted inEditor's Pick

What the Racist Massacre in Buffalo Stole From One Family

by Seyward Darby June 2, 2022October 19, 2022

An intimate portrait of the family of Celestine Chaney in the days after she and nine other Black people were shot and killed by a white supremacist at Tops Friendly Market. Chaney had just one child, a son named Wayne: Wayne was dissatisfied by the answers the country offered. The stagnation of gun control efforts […]

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A Pandemic Tragedy in Guayaquil

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands March 8, 2022October 19, 2022

In this harrowing read for The New Yorker, Daniel Alarcón paints a grim picture of Guayaquil, Ecuador’s largest city, which endured one of the world’s most lethal outbreaks of COVID-19. In Guayaquil, on any given day before the pandemic, there might have been thirty to fifty people whose deaths had to be accounted for, whose […]

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