Longreads Best of 2021: All of Our No. 1 Story Picks By Krista Stevens Feature Here’s every story that was chosen as No. 1 in our weekly Top 5 email. Friends: We Need Your Help to Fund More Stories
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Our Most-Read Longreads Originals of 2021 By Krista Stevens Feature The original reporting and personal essays that were our most-read stories of the year.
Debt Demands a Body By Kristin Collier Feature “The future that debt chose for me — indeed the future it chooses for many people — included a lot of shame, confusion, and pain.”
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Alex Skopic, David Dayen, Chabeli Carrazana, Devin Kelly, and Carla Ciccone.
Impersonation Nation: A Very Scammy Reading List By Peter Rubin Feature Five stories that demonstrate we’re living in the golden age of the personal hoax.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Skip Hollandsworth, Kory Grow and Jason Newman, Jordan Kisner, Clare Fieseler, and Jessica Klein.
‘We Are Alive’: Six Longreads About Music By Krista Stevens Feature The soundtrack of my life goes back a long way. Here are six longreads about music, for the love of it.
The Professor By Irina Dumitrescu Feature “Maybe the most powerful person is the one who dares to refuse the gift.”
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from George Chidi, Chantha Nguon and Kim Green, Poppy Sebag-Montefiore, Stephanie Hayes, and Brianne Garrett.
The Great British Reading List By Carolyn Wells Feature A reading list on the weird and wonderful culture of Great Britain.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Kevin Fagan, Sarah Ravani, Lauren Hepler, and J.K. Dineen, Eric Boodman, Gabrielle Anctil, Joe Hagan, and Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee.
There Are No Seasons: A Reading List on Loss, Love, and Living with Fire in California By Cheri Lucas Rowlands Feature Six personal essays about or inspired by wildfire.
The Strange True Tale of ‘Castro’s No. 1 Killer’ By longreads Feature Herman Marks, a drifter from Milwaukee, took a boat to Cuba with nothing but a Colt .45 revolver and $400 in cash. His plan? To join the revolution.
Debt Demands a Body By Kristin Collier Feature “The future that debt chose for me — indeed the future it chooses for many people — included a lot of shame, confusion, and pain.”
The Professor By Irina Dumitrescu Feature “Maybe the most powerful person is the one who dares to refuse the gift.”
The Great British Reading List By Carolyn Wells Feature A reading list on the weird and wonderful culture of Great Britain.
The Strange True Tale of ‘Castro’s No. 1 Killer’ By longreads Feature Herman Marks, a drifter from Milwaukee, took a boat to Cuba with nothing but a Colt .45 revolver and $400 in cash. His plan? To join the revolution.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Skip Hollandsworth, Kory Grow and Jason Newman, Jordan Kisner, Clare Fieseler, and Jessica Klein.
Longreads Best of 2021: All of Our No. 1 Story Picks By Krista Stevens Feature Here’s every story that was chosen as No. 1 in our weekly Top 5 email.