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Posted inCommentary, Current Events, Discussions, Podcasts

Editor’s Roundtable: Smiles, Lies, and Promise (Podcast)

by Longreads August 2, 2019October 19, 2022

Longreads editors discuss stories in Gay Magazine, The New Yorker, and Topic.

Posted inCommentary, Current Events, Discussions, Podcasts

Editor’s Roundtable: Manufactured to Go Viral (Podcast)

by Longreads July 26, 2019October 19, 2022

Longreads editors discuss stories in Pacific Standard, The Paris Review, and Topic.

Posted inNonfiction, Top 5

The Top 5 Longreads of the Week

by Longreads July 19, 2019October 19, 2022

This week, we’re sharing stories from Lizzie Presser, Barbara Bradley Hagerty, S. Margot Finn, Darcy Frey, and Logan Hill.

Posted inHighlight, Quote Posts, Quotes

‘Something’s Got to Give’: Redux

by Krista Stevens July 18, 2019March 29, 2023

“Get me out of here — I’m losing it!”

Posted inNonfiction, Top 5

The Top 5 Longreads of the Week

by Longreads July 12, 2019October 19, 2022

This week, we’re sharing stories from Gabriel Thompson, Tim Murphy, Deborah Netburn, Tove Danovich, and Sirin Kale.

Posted inNonfiction, Top 5

The Top 5 Longreads of the Week

by Longreads July 5, 2019October 19, 2022

This week, we’re sharing stories from Ian Frisch, Niela Orr, Alison Fensterstock, Jill Lepore, and Austin Carr.

Posted inNonfiction, Top 5

The Top 5 Longreads of the Week

by Longreads May 10, 2019October 19, 2022

This week, we’re sharing stories from Caroline Chen, Keri Bertino, Ann Friedman, Allison Williams, and Brian Payton.

Posted inCommentary, Current Events, Discussions, Podcasts

Editors Roundtable: Alma Matters, Raisin Hell, and Upstairs Cocaine (Podcast)

by Longreads May 8, 2019October 19, 2022

This week, we’re discussing stories in The Cut, Vulture, The New York Times, Topic, and The Atavist.

Posted inNonfiction, Top 5

The Top 5 Longreads of the Week

by Longreads March 22, 2019October 19, 2022

This week, we’re sharing stories from Angella d’Avignon, Katie Englehart, Caitlin Dewey, Eric Benson, Roxane Gay and Tressie McMillan Cottom. 

Posted inEditor's Pick

The Mortician and the Murderer

by Sari Botton March 21, 2019October 19, 2022

An incredible photo essay in which both the images and words tell the crazy story of imprisoned mortician David Sconce (up for parole in 2022). In the ’80s, Sconce turned his family’s California funeral home into a mass crematorium and black market body part- and organ-harvesting business.

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