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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week

by Longreads March 10, 2023March 9, 2023

Our Top 5 stories of the week from Maurice Chammah, Benoît Morenne, Amanda Gefter, Jane Miller, and Cheryl Katz and our first-ever audience award.

Posted inEditor's Pick

The Mercy Workers

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands March 8, 2023March 8, 2023

“For three decades, a little-known group of ‘mitigation specialists’ has helped save death-penalty defendants by documenting their childhood traumas. A rare look inside one case.”

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Posted inCuration, Nonfiction, Top 5

The Top 5 Longreads of the Week

by Longreads September 30, 2022October 19, 2022

This week, our editors recommend stories by Eric Borsuk, Aaron Gell, Laurie Penny, Hanif Abdurraqib, and Will Rees.

Handcuffs lying on a page of fingerprints
Posted inNonfiction

How to Save True Crime: A Reading List of Wrongful Conviction Stories

by Maurice Chammah March 16, 2022November 1, 2022

Stories about wrongful convictions open our eyes to systemic injustices in the U.S. court system. Maurice Chammah, a staff writer at The Marshall Project, compiles his recommended longreads within the genre.

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Posted inCuration, Nonfiction, Top 5

The Top 5 Longreads of the Week

by Longreads January 21, 2022October 19, 2022

This week, we’re sharing stories from Maurice Chammah, Jeff Weiss, Rasha Elass, Danielle Tcholakian, and Lila Shapiro.

Posted inNonfiction, Top 5

The Top 5 Longreads of the Week

by Longreads April 30, 2021October 19, 2022

This week, we’re sharing stories from Nicole Lewis, Omayra Issa and Ify Chiwetelu, Patricia McCormick, Tobias Buck, and ‘Cúagilákv.

Posted inEditor's Pick

The Case That Made Texas the Death Penalty Capital

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands February 1, 2021October 19, 2022

“As one of the first death sentences under the new law, Jurek’s case would become a test case, playing a key role in both the nationwide rise of the death penalty and Texas’s place at the center.”

Posted inNonfiction, Top 5

The Top 5 Longreads of the Week

by Longreads November 27, 2020October 19, 2022

This week, we’re sharing stories from Nick Roberts and Rosa Amanda Tuirán, Carroll Bogert and Lynnell Hancock, Kiese Makeba Laymon, Alicia Kennedy, and Kitty Kelley.

Posted inNonfiction

She Said Her Husband Hit Her. She Lost Custody of Their Kids

by Kathryn Joyce July 8, 2020November 25, 2022

How reporting domestic violence works against women in family court.

Posted inNonfiction

In Sickness, In Health — and In Prison

by mikedang August 19, 2019January 18, 2023

Most people know prisoners can marry. Few remember the co-ed prison, the impromptu courthouse wedding and the Supreme Court ruling that allows them to do so.

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