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Six Teenagers, a Brutal Murder and the Story They Couldn’t Take Back

The Missing Pages

A Fatal Reaction

‘We Were Simply Animals’

Magical Mystery Toads

How Rogue Officers Turned a Nationwide Camera Network into a Tool for Stalking

Days Disrupted

Who Ya Gonna Call? Scam Busters!

Was My Teacher Murdered?

Gaza’s Deadly Soil

The Top 5 Longreads of the Week

Meet Britain’s Hikikomori

What Is It Like to Be a Cucumber?

This, Too, Shall Pass

“Protected by Ghost Town”

You and Me and QVC

In the Age of AI, the Analog Restaurant Feels Radical

The Beauty of a Stone Wall

The Return of the Monarch

“Spaceballs: The Clickbait”—Inside the Return of Rick Moranis at Comic-Con

Johnny Knoxville, America’s God of Mischief

The Longreads Questionnaire, Featuring Kimon de Greef

Her Rape Kit Had a DNA Match. In San Francisco, That’s Not Enough.

He’s the Last Great Land Artist You’ve Never Heard Of

Gassed Up

A Teen Reporter Searched for His Community in the Epstein Files. Adults Freaked Out.

A Dying Art

Beckett the Prophet

The Children Who Loved a Killer

How Reporting Creates Change: A Conversation with Pamela Colloff

Beyond Greece and Rome

Elite Young Runners Are Becoming Freakishly Fast. Welcome to ‘Trackflation’

The Anti-Sunscreen Movement Is Coming for You

Accidental Historian

A Strange Continent

The Longreads Questionnaire, Featuring s.e. smith

The Rise of the Corporate Rave

The Bone Rush

Idaho Pushed Anti-Trans Laws for Years. Then a Teen Died.

A Beastie Boy Returns to the Mic, With Some Help

A Texan Risked Everything to Defend Ukraine. So Did His Father.

Isolated, Scared, Forlorn: The Heartbreaking Final Months of Virginia Giuffre’s Life

My Mother Died On Screen But Survived Hollywood

The Real Life Mermaids of Florida’s Weeki Wachee Springs

Why Are Berries Everywhere, in Every Season? Driscoll’s.

The Rosenberg Boys

Little Monsters

God’s Children