Longreads

Longreadsby Carolyn Wells·23h ago

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.

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Longreadsby Carolyn Wells·2d ago

Do you remember the media frenzy over lab-grown meat? Why, several years later, has it not become a supermarket staple?

Longreadsby Brendan Fitzgerald·2d ago

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 Darby·2d ago

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 Wells·3d ago

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...

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Longreadsby Brendan Fitzgerald·4d ago

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 Stevens·4d ago

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 Wells·4d ago

“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 Longreads·4d ago

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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Longreadsby Cheri Lucas Rowlands·5d ago

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 Wells·8d ago

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.

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Longreadsby Carolyn Wells·9d ago

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.

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Longreadsby Brendan Fitzgerald·9d ago

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 Darby·9d ago

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 Darby·9d ago

Award-winning New Yorker writer Rachel Aviv recently published a collection of essays about the relationships between mothers and daughters.

Longreadsby Elizabeth Blackwell·9d ago

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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Longreadsby Seyward Darby·10d ago

Stormy Morse lost two partners to gun suicide. She didn’t know that the second one, Lewis Tabler, had made the National Rifle Association the beneficiary of his retirement savings through its...

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Longreadsby Krista Stevens·11d ago

There’s nothing like walking into a pub and sitting down at an empty stool where your regular order awaits you. You have been seen; it’s a singular feeling of camaraderie and community.

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Longreadsby Brendan Fitzgerald·11d ago

Ahead of the 40th anniversary of Stand By Me, Alec Joyner takes up Rob Reiner’s classic film and considers it from a few dozen angles.

Longreadsby Krista Stevens·12d ago

When Saeed Jones gets a Lyft ride with Mister Anthony in New Orleans, he has no idea he’s in for brief but deep connection that will occupy his mind long after the trip is over.