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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week

by Longreads February 3, 2023February 16, 2023

This week’s edition highlights stories by Peter Flax, Abigail Edge, Jesús A. Rodríguez, Henry Wismayer, and Elif Batuman.

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The First Family of Human Cannonballing

by Carolyn Wells January 31, 2023January 31, 2023

“David and Jeannie Smith gave up their day jobs for a life of daredevil stunts —with six children in tow.”

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More Than Just an Object: A Collector’s Reading List

by Chris Wheatley January 5, 2023January 30, 2023

The bowerbird, which lives on the east coast of Australia, has an abiding eye for anything blue. Solitary males travel great distances to bring back all manner of blue objects to decorate their nests. Shells, flowers, plastic bottles, and feathers are all fair game, and bowerbirds have even been known to grind up blue pigments […]

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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week

by Longreads October 28, 2022November 9, 2022

This week’s list features stories from Shara Johnson. Paul Fischer, John Woodrow Cox, Marc Hogan, and Angelica Jade Bastién.

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They Were Labeled Witches. They Just Had Dementia.

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands October 26, 2022October 28, 2022

“In tribal communities across Namibia, older, eccentric people are often accused of witchcraft and violently attacked.”

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Archives of Our Own: A Reading List on Fandom & Community

by Lindsay Eanet March 30, 2022October 19, 2022

Fandom gets at our most human urges: to share the things we love with others, to seek community among like-minded peers, especially at a time when we are all still too far apart.

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Meet the Obsessive Role-Players Who Live Inside the World of Grand Theft Auto

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

“Renegade developers co-opted this controversial video game’s source code to build a complex alternate universe where breaking character is the cardinal sin. Millions tune in to watch.”

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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week

by Longreads December 18, 2020October 19, 2022

This week, we’re sharing stories from Lizzie Presser, Greg Jaffe, Phillip Picardi, Amy Yee, and Paul Brown.

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The Crime Victim Who’s Obsessed with True Crime Shows

by Carolyn Wells June 29, 2020October 19, 2022

“Before the shooting, watching true crime shows was a diversion. Afterward, it is no longer simply a genre to me.”

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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week

by Longreads July 26, 2019October 19, 2022

This week, we’re sharing stories from Brent Cunningham, CJ Hauser, Carla Bruce-Eddings, Caroline Rothstein, and Lisa Grossman.

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