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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.

A yellowed newspaper clipping about the former child star Lora Lee Michel.
Posted inTop 5

The Top 5 Longreads of the Week

by Longreads November 4, 2022November 9, 2022

This week we’re sharing stories from Stacy Perman, Azadeh Moaveni, Jake Kring-Schreifels, Kris Newby, and Nikita Arora.

Posted inEditor's Pick

A Child Star at 7, in Prison at 22. Then She Vanished. What Happened to Lora Lee Michel?

by Carolyn Wells November 2, 2022November 2, 2022

“Hollywood is notorious for erasing people. But her sister and nieces refused to forget Lora Lee Michel.”

On a misty evening, a man walks along a quiet Dutch street
Posted inTop 5

The Top 5 Longreads of the Week

by Longreads October 14, 2022October 14, 2022

This week, our editors recommend stories by Naomi Gordon-Loebl, Jean Guerrero, Ben Goldfarb, Dan Kois, and Reeves Wiedeman.

Posted inEditor's Pick

I Once Fell for the Fantasy of Uploading Ourselves. It’s a Destructive Vision.

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands October 12, 2022October 19, 2022

“In the early 2000s, I spent hundreds of hours trying to upload my mind to the web.”

Posted inEditor's Pick

Pregnant, Homeless and Living in a Tent: Meet Mckenzie

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands July 19, 2022October 19, 2022

In 2018, reporter Gale Holland, photographer Christina House, and videographer Claire Hannah Collins spent time with young unhoused people in an encampment above the Hollywood Freeway. Their Hollywood’s Finest series for the Los Angeles Times tells the stories of three women, including Mckenzie Trahan, a young woman who has been in and out of foster […]

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A Bittersweet Escape for Afghans From a Music School Gone Silent

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands December 8, 2021October 19, 2022

“What will happen to Afghan programs like the Zohra Orchestra as the Taliban regains control of the country?”

Posted inNonfiction, Top 5

The Top 5 Longreads of the Week

by Longreads August 27, 2021October 19, 2022

This week, we’re sharing stories from Matt Hamilton and Garrett Therolf, Lacy M. Johnson, Devin Kelly, Max Bell, and Rainesford Stauffer.

Posted inEditor's Pick

The Man Who Didn’t Invent Flamin’ Hot Cheetos

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands May 18, 2021October 19, 2022

“He’s now retired in his early 60s, after a full career climbing the corporate ladder. Montañez made it, from rags to riches, from factory floor to corporate suite. He just didn’t make Flamin’ Hot Cheetos.”

Posted inFeatured, Highlight, Nonfiction, Quote Posts, Quotes, Science & Nature

Seagulls Who Eat People Food Poop People Food on Protected Lands

by Aaron Gilbreath October 28, 2019October 19, 2022

Fast food is killing the human world. Now it could be killing California gulls’ protected island habitat.

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