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Top 5 Longreads of the Week

by Longreads August 4, 2023August 3, 2023

This week we’re sharing stories from Kamran Javadizadeh, Joshua Hunt, Amy McCarthy, Jaron Lanier, and Andy Greene.

Posted inEditor's Pick

Mount Fear Diary

by Krista Stevens July 28, 2023July 28, 2023

“Speaking to the dead can, for a short while, seem to place us outside the laws of nature—outside the rules governing time and space.”

Posted inReading List

Return to the Saddle Club: A Reading List on Horse Girls

by Lindsay Eanet May 30, 2023May 30, 2023

Celebrating the girls with an equine obsession.

Posted inEditor's Pick

Violent Delights

by Seyward Darby January 4, 2023January 4, 2023

“The serial killer media industrial complex rages on, but what has it taught us? Very little about the crimes in question, and much more about ourselves.”

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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week

by Longreads December 16, 2022January 26, 2023

This week we are sharing stories on gun violence, Silicon Valley in the ’90s, the ability of artificial intelligence, and the community of audiophiles.

Posted inEditor's Pick

Aristocrat Inc.

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands December 12, 2022December 11, 2022

“How a small computer chip company, owned by the author’s mother, became the target of a sprawling pan-Asian crime ring that operated throughout Silicon Valley.”

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Posted inReading List

Disappearing Language: A Reading List on Losing Your Native Tongue

by Pardeep Toor February 24, 2022October 21, 2022

Powerful reads on which language comes first, second, or even third.

Posted inCuration, Nonfiction, Top 5

The Top 5 Longreads of the Week

by Longreads January 7, 2022October 19, 2022

This week, we’re sharing stories from Simon van Zuylen-Wood, Elizabeth Weil, Jeannette Cooperman, Ryan Katz, and Madeleine Watts.

Posted inCuration, Nonfiction, Top 5

The Top 5 Longreads of the Week

by Longreads October 1, 2021October 19, 2022

This week, we’re sharing stories from Becca Andrews, Désiré Nimubona, Jon Mooallem, Jesse Lee Kercheval, and Kathryn Borel.

Posted inEditor's Pick

An Interview with Chuck Palahniuk

by Peter Rubin September 30, 2021October 19, 2022

“At exactly 1:05pm, the Prius was outside my Airbnb, as was Chuck, in a pressed white shirt and pastel turquoise shorts. He treated me to a tuna sandwich at a nearby bakery. We then drove back and sat down for three hours of conversation in the secluded bamboo-walled yard, which happened to be right next […]

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