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Longreadsby Lisa Whittington-Hill27 Aug 2026
Thoughtful stories for thoughtless times. Longreads has published hundreds of original stories—personal essays, reported features, reading lists, and more—and more than 14,000 editor’s picks.
Longreadsby Wilbert L. Cooper25 Aug 2026
In Wilbert L. Cooper’s new memoir, The Black Shield, he tells two intertwining stories: the history of the city’s Black Shield Police Association, one of the country’s oldest Black policing...
Longreadsby Carolyn Wells24 Aug 2026
When Sabrina Imbler’s cat, Melon, becomes seriously ill with what is later confirmed as feline infectious peritonitis (FIP), Imbler feels she doesn’t have time to wait for a formal diagnosis and...
Longreadsby Brendan Fitzgerald24 Aug 2026
More than a decade ago, a group of snipers shot up an electrical substation in Silicon Valley, striking power transformers and disabling the substation for nearly a month.
Longreadsby Carolyn Wells21 Aug 2026
Europe is warming more than twice as fast as the global average—a terrifying statistic made all too apparent this summer as heat wave followed heat wave.
Longreadsby Carolyn Wells20 Aug 2026
Do you remember the media frenzy over lab-grown meat? Why, several years later, has it not become a supermarket staple?
Longreadsby Brendan Fitzgerald20 Aug 2026
David Kushner first met Anthony Curcio nearly two decades ago, to tell the story of how Curcio masterminded a $400,000 bank robbery and escaped on an inner tube.
Longreadsby Seyward Darby20 Aug 2026
In July 2025, a protester shot a cop outside an ICE detention facility in North Texas. The federal government alleged the incident was the result of an “antifa” terrorist plot involving a network...
Longreadsby Carolyn Wells19 Aug 2026
When Rhonda MacDonald put out a plea for help on Facebook, the cowboys answered. Wildfires have been ravaging British Columbia, Canada, this summer—and when a ranch is put under evacuation, it is...
Longreadsby Brendan Fitzgerald18 Aug 2026
Kevin Dupzyk’s profile of Sam Rockwell, a “legendary scene-stealer” now in his fourth decade of work, is a crisp and entertaining one-act, with journalist and actor holed up in a spare Manhattan...
Longreadsby Krista Stevens18 Aug 2026
The house with the red-brick exterior, huge old-growth maple, and sprawling back patio on Castle Frank Crescent in Toronto’s pricy Rosedale neighborhood seemed like the perfect symbol of...
Longreadsby Carolyn Wells18 Aug 2026
“Sound is a tangible way of connecting to aspects of nature that are hidden from humans. The deep ocean, the dark night, and now the dense earth beneath our feet,” writes Ella Browning.
Longreadsby Longreads18 Aug 2026
Thoughtful stories for thoughtless times. Longreads has published hundreds of original stories—personal essays, reported features, reading lists, and more—and more than 14,000 editor’s picks.
Longreadsby Cheri Lucas Rowlands17 Aug 2026
For The New Yorker, Shayla Love writes about how GPS—a military technology turned daily necessity, and the subject of Katherine Dunn’s new book, Little Blue Dot: How GPS Shaped the Modern World—has...
Longreadsby Carolyn Wells14 Aug 2026
I used to be in a friend group chat called “Tinder Spinsters,” a group of girls offering support as we navigated the tumultuous dating world.
Longreadsby Carolyn Wells13 Aug 2026
With no secondary school in the southern half of the Isle of Mull, children must leave home for the mainland at the age of eleven, living in a youth hostel during the school week.
Longreadsby Brendan Fitzgerald13 Aug 2026
Pat Caldwell is 69 years old and, as Chris Stanton gushes in this uproarious Q&A, “a legend to IMAX nerds.” Caldwell loves Vision3 film stock, hates Joker: Folie à Deux, and has discovered more...
Longreadsby Seyward Darby13 Aug 2026
A Chinese man hired a Florida surrogate, then didn’t pick up his kids because of visas issues, sparking a custody battle that could upend the lucrative, largely unregulated industry.
Longreadsby Seyward Darby13 Aug 2026
Award-winning New Yorker writer Rachel Aviv recently published a collection of essays about the relationships between mothers and daughters.
Longreadsby Elizabeth Blackwell13 Aug 2026
Thoughtful stories for thoughtless times. Longreads has published hundreds of original stories—personal essays, reported features, reading lists, and more—and more than 14,000 editor’s picks.
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