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Leaving America

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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week

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The Hardest Part Of History To Tell Is How It Felt

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What It’s Like to Go Through Perimenopause and Menopause in Prison

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Fortress Yellowstone

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The California Town With Less Than 30 Residents Begging for Young People to Move In

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Who Is Black Comedy For?

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Could the Girls of Camp Mystic Have Been Saved?

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Curiosity Is No Solo Act

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‘They’re Gonna Make Me Cry’: I Competed at a Speed Puzzling Championship

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The Longreads Questionnaire, Featuring Ibram X. Kendi

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I Found It: The Best Free Restaurant Bread in America

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Politics After Literacy

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Holding Pattern: A Reading List on Waiting . . .

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Turfin’ Safari

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The Absolute Hell of Watching a Movie at the Alamo Drafthouse in 2026

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The Car-Crash Conspiracy

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Menace on the Streets

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The Mansion, the Heiress, the Jewel Heist, and Me: A Bel-Air Fairytale

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Finding the Cattle Queen

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The Strange Saga of Faces of Death

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Bright, Built World

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AI Got the Blame for the Iran School Bombing. The Truth is Far More Worrying

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The Memory Maker

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Sea of Nightmares: My Son Died Climbing. Now, I Wrestle With ‘What If.’

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The Fantasy Baseball Ties That Bind

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She Fell for an AI — Then Held its Funeral

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A New Jersey Teen Finds Treasure, and More, in Abandoned Storage Units

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Sleeping Beauty

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The Longreads Questionnaire, Featuring Patrick Radden Keefe

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Limiting Not Just Screen Time, But Screen Space

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Forget the A.I. Apocalypse. Memes Have Already Nuked Our Culture.

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The Search

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The Hypercurious Mind

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Hallucinated Citations Are Polluting the Scientific Literature. What Can Be Done?

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The Death of a Superman

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It’s Hard Out Here for a 20-Something

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What Happens When You Don’t Die on Time?

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‘Complex, Dangerous, Sexual Beings’: The Centuries-Old Origins of Current Fairy Fiction

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Is There Life After Smartphones?

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The Good Catholics of Buffalo

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The Camps Promising to Turn You—or Your Son—Into an Alpha Male

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Opposing ICE Might Save the Country. It Could Also Ruin Your Life.

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Gillian Welch: This Land is Her Land

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The California Novel No One Can Find

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The Longreads Questionnaire, Featuring R. O. Kwon

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They Would Not Dream of Flowers: Translating Through the Tehran Blackout

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