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Longreads @longreads.com · 24/10/2025

Love deeply reported personal essays and narrative journalism? On the CNF podcast, @provenself.bsky.social talks about the joys of both and the Longreads Member Drive. Have a listen and check out the full episode: pca.st/6o68d537

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Longreads @longreads.com · 22/10/2025

Help keep Longreads a safe haven for weird and wonderful stories—a place writers and readers can trust. longreads.com/join/?utm_so...

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Longreads @longreads.com · 20/10/2025

If you want more stories worth sitting with, help us keep publishing them. Because depth deserves a home. longreads.com/join/?utm_so...

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Longreads @longreads.com · 25/09/2025

“But what if, instead of resisting the deaths of the last survivors, we allow ourselves to accept their mortality?” The grandson of an Auschwitz-Birkenau survivor grapples with the use of AI to reanimate the dead. A new essay on @longreads.com, by @bcgl.bsky.social: longreads.com/2025/09/25/a...

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Longreads @longreads.com · 11/08/2025

In her new essay, Hannah Engler searches for answers about her great-uncle, a forgotten 1970s fashion designer: longreads.com/2025/08/07/1...

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Longreads @longreads.com · 16/06/2025

New on @longreads.com: An excerpt from THE ENDURING WILD, Josh Jackson's forthcoming book on California's BLM lands—millions of forgotten "leftover" acres of public wilderness. Out on June 24 from Heyday Books 📚 longreads.com/2025/06/12/b...

Quote reads: "These lands are our common ground, a gift of seismic proportions that belongs to all of us. No matter your color, creed, or class, and even if you’ve never signed your name to a deed, you are a landowner." Attribution line reads "Josh Jackson, "The Enduring Wild."

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Longreads @longreads.com · 27/05/2025

In a new @longreads essay, @caylinct.bsky.social‬ writes about Sublime's late frontman Bradley Nowell, poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge, addiction, and limits: longreads.com/2025/05/22/s...

Quote that reads: "I am looking for the sense of being somewhere I can never go. I’m looking for California again." Byline reads: "Caylin Capra-Thomas, 'On (the) Sublime'"

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Longreads @longreads.com · 15/05/2025

Today at Longreads, N.C. Happe writes about a gut-wrenching decision she made at summer camp as a girl, one that has haunted her for 20 years. longreads.com/2025/05/15/c...

Quote from N.C. Happe's essay, "The Bad Thing"

"It’s not that I don’t like being alone, exactly, but that I’ve never seemed to have much of a say in the matter. I don’t look for friendship, nor does it ever arrive."

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Longreads @longreads.com · 28/04/2025

Writer @nicktriolo.bsky.social walked 20 miles around America's largest Superfund site. Read about this journey in an adapted excerpt from "The Way Around: A Field Guide to Going Nowhere," from @milkweededitions.bsky.social. longreads.com/2025/04/24/b...

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Longreads @longreads.com · 22/04/2025

"She tends to the structure, repairing damage, devoting energy to producing both the silk and the pattern for her web. In turn, the web feeds her." @kaseybwriter.bsky.social #writing #self-censorship longreads.com/2025/04/08/w...

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Longreads @longreads.com · 15/04/2025

A prison stay pushes Michael Fischer's obsession with water waste to the brink in our powerful new Longreads essay. longreads.com/2025/04/15/c...

Text reads: "Prison is where someone with OCD goes to be driven insane, the illustion of agency flayed from daily life."

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Longreads @longreads.com · 15/04/2025

"People who love Phish do so with a quasi-religious devotion. People who dislike Phish do so with an equal fervor." Amanda Petrusich for @newyorker.com longreads.com/2025/04/14/t...

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Longreads @longreads.com · 14/04/2025

"And I know that this, the way I love my son, and the way my father loves him, is the only way we know how to say unsayable things." —Maggie Andersen for @electricliterature.com longreads.com/2025/04/14/m...

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Longreads @longreads.com · 11/04/2025

"To eat in modern America is to participate in not-knowing. We encounter the meal on our plates, yet behind that, much is kept hidden from us: how the animals were treated, how the land was farmed. . ." @oxfordamerican.bsky.social longreads.com/2025/04/11/k...

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Longreads @longreads.com · 11/04/2025

"By recruiting birds as research assistants, today’s scientists are gaining a better understanding of how Earth’s climate and ecosystems function, and how to keep these interconnected systems working for all creatures—us included." —Ashley Stimpson for Audubon Magazine longreads.com/2025/04/10/t...

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Longreads @longreads.com · 09/04/2025

"The story of my evolving relationship with technology—a narrow slice of my experience in life—actually is worthy of telling by the definition that I set for myself." @vauhinivara.bsky.social @sarahviren.bsky.social @literaryhub.bsky.social longreads.com/2025/04/09/p...

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Longreads @longreads.com · 09/04/2025

New at Longreads: @kaseybwriter.bsky.social on what dreams and spiders taught her about trusting the process when it comes to her writing. #writing longreads.com/2025/04/08/w...

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Longreads @longreads.com · 08/04/2025

"There were telephone reference divisions in libraries all over the country, but this being New York City, we were an unusually large one with an unusually heavy volume of calls." —Stephen Akey for The Hedgehog Review longreads.com/2025/04/08/t...

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Longreads @longreads.com · 08/04/2025

What are our dreams trying to tell us? @kaseybwriter.bsky.social looks at the spaces between creativity and self-censorship in her new @longreads.com essay. longreads.com/2025/04/08/w...

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Longreads @longreads.com · 07/04/2025

"Maybe the lesson then was the same as it is now: We are all just trying to survive. We are not done yet." —Emily Polk for @emergencemagazine.bsky.social longreads.com/2025/04/07/t...

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Longreads @longreads.com · 04/04/2025

"Rehabbers dumped box after box of romaine lettuce into the water. The young manatee’s next meal was never in question. But her future is." —Zachary T. Sampson, @shreyavut.bsky.social @betsbarnes.bsky.social @tampabaytimes.bsky.social longreads.com/2025/04/04/w...

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Longreads @longreads.com · 02/04/2025

"Soon, though, the VFW was besieged by outraged emails. The organization initially released a Facebook message in support of Post 12226 but removed it after irate users bombarded the note." @milehighrobert.bsky.social for 5280 Magazine longreads.com/2025/04/02/e...

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Longreads @longreads.com · 31/03/2025

"I want to talk about it, though. I want to talk about what the hell happened to my friend. I want to talk about the way addiction can give you the illusion of choice, even as it kills you." —M.D. McIntyre for @thesunmagazine.bsky.social longreads.com/2025/03/31/d...

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Longreads @longreads.com · 29/03/2025

In this new Longreads essay, Aaron Rabinowitz writes about survival, identity, and the inked and invisible scars that history leaves behind. longreads.com/2025/03/27/t...

Headline: I had read enough autobiographies, seen enough archival footage, visited enough memorials and museums to understand what It meant.

Tagline: Aaron Rabinowitz, "Tattoos"

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Longreads @longreads.com · 20/03/2025

"I’d been listening to the song in my car earlier that morning, when a flock of Canada geese flew low and heavy over the highway, and I found myself weeping, suddenly, inelegantly, because the whole thing just felt so unlikely." Amanda Petrusich for @newyorker.com

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Longreads @longreads.com · 19/03/2025

In @crivera.bsky.social's new essay collection, she writes about new words, discovering her own way of thinking, and seeing the world as a web of flowing relationships. Her book, MY OCEANS, is available now, via @nupress.bsky.social. Read our excerpt ⬇️ longreads.com/2025/03/13/l...

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Longreads @longreads.com · 12/03/2025

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Longreads @longreads.com · 12/03/2025

". . . . beavers are problematic only because they’ve made a spectacular recovery from near-extinction at the beginning of the last century." @brianbanks.bsky.social @cangeo.bsky.social longreads.com/2025/03/12/t...

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Longreads @longreads.com · 12/03/2025

"How Sheridan creates these worlds complements the theme of one brave man — occasionally, a woman — taking on the malignant forces hell-bent on destroying this country." —Stephen Rodrick for @rollingstone.com longreads.com/2025/03/11/i...

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Longreads @longreads.com · 10/03/2025

"Is wanting to end the suffering selfish on my part, because watching tightens my throat? Or is refusing to intervene a failure of compassion?" —Jeanette Cooperman for The Common Reader longreads.com/2025/03/10/m...

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Longreads @longreads.com · 07/03/2025

"One hour later, on the second stretch and fold, I felt the fairy dust of fermentation, a continuous cycle of death and resurrection; out of crumble and shreds came elasticity. The dough was in dialogue with me, teeming with vivacity." —Alice Feiring for Taste. longreads.com/2025/03/07/l...

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Longreads @longreads.com · 07/03/2025

"That night, after wading through a street party unlike anything I’d seen, I talked my way into the Londoner through a side door. The scene looked like something from the 1978 comedy Animal House." —Devon 0"Neil for @outsidemag.bsky.social longreads.com/2025/03/06/a...

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Longreads @longreads.com · 06/03/2025

"Ali may have continued to get his free burgers, but he never did get those hundreds of locations." @dhm.bsky.social for @defector.bsky.social longreads.com/2025/03/06/t...

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Longreads @longreads.com · 06/03/2025

"So often as humans, we think we’re discovering something when actually, we’re just finding a language to express what is right." —adrienne maree brown, @amyray.bsky.social @orionmagazine.bsky.social longreads.com/2025/03/06/a...

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Longreads @longreads.com · 05/03/2025

"It means that most of her work is keeping people alive long enough for them to find their way out of the dark. For every person, like Tucker, who she connects to treatment, there are countless others who refuse it." —Adlai Coleman for The Delacorte Review longreads.com/2025/03/05/t...

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Longreads @longreads.com · 04/03/2025

"I don’t know that I’ve ever read a book that is better at dramatizing—embodying—the feckless confidence of one’s early 20s, that feeling that if only you and your genius friends could be set loose upon society you could transform it." —Dan Kois for @slate.bsky.social longreads.com/2025/03/04/w...

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Longreads @longreads.com · 04/03/2025

"I wanted to understand how these writers found their way into their stories. I was searching for a way out." —Sahar Delijani for @literaryhub.bsky.social longreads.com/2025/03/04/f...

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Longreads @longreads.com · 03/03/2025

"The CRA scam was highly professionalized, operating for years out of ordinary call centres where thousands of rank-and-file employees punched in and collected paycheques." —Sarah Treleaven for @macleans.bsky.social longreads.com/2025/03/03/t...

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Longreads @longreads.com · 27/02/2025

"It’s a strange corner of the internet that I inhabited for roughly four years as a teenager, and it is home to many formative memories." —Gary Grimes for @thefence.bsky.social longreads.com/2025/02/26/day-1509-i…

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Longreads @longreads.com · 26/02/2025

"The more time I spent following the group that some called the Zizians, the more their story started seeming itself like some kind of basilisk." @evrat.bsky.social @wired.com longreads.com/2025/02/26/t...

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Longreads @longreads.com · 26/02/2025

“'. . . . People are scattered; they lost their stuff; they lost their community; they lost their Narcan. A lot of people use and overdose in the hours after a sweep.'” —Tim Evans for @thenation.com @economichardship.bsky.social longreads.com/2025/02/26/w...

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Longreads @longreads.com · 25/02/2025

"The nine Sámi languages still in use have an extensive vocabulary for snow—everything from åppås, untouched winter snow without tracks; to habllek, a light, airy dust-like snow. . . " @jwebsterayuso.bsky.social @noemamag.com longreads.com/2025/02/25/t...

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Longreads @longreads.com · 25/02/2025

"[O]tter-eating wolves and other so-called exceptions may actually be teaching us just how capable some species are of responding rapidly when the need arises." Caroline Van Hemert for @highcountrynews.bsky.social longreads.com/2025/02/25/l...

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Longreads @longreads.com · 21/02/2025

"I won’t name anyone or share identifying details without permission. Meanwhile anything that I do, or that happens to me: fair game. " —Kassondra Cloos for @outsidemag.bsky.social longreads.com/2025/02/20/this-is-wh…

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Longreads @longreads.com · 20/02/2025

"Ronnie Morrisette became homeless in 2004, when he was 18, after the grandfather who raised him died and the family home in Ingleside was sold. He’d been in and around the park for more than a decade, and liked it." —Susan Freinkel for @sfstandard.com longreads.com/2025/02/20/h...

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Longreads @longreads.com · 19/02/2025

"Now, Latin American drug lords are using the same currents and trade winds that islanders have relied on for centuries to connect and expand their colossal, criminal empires." @swilliamsjourno.bsky.social ky.social @kjknodell.bsky.social @newlinesmag.bsky.social longreads.com/2025/02/19/t...

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Longreads @longreads.com · 18/02/2025

". . . the machinery of American comedy has built up around him, & no one knows how the laugh factory will function if Michaels retires—or what it means if he chooses to cling to the show into his twilight years." @reeveswiedeman.bsky.social @nymag.com longreads.com/2025/02/18/after-lorne

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Longreads @longreads.com · 17/02/2025

"There is something terrifying in the face of a Buddha, in the curve of the eye and the lip: beauty, but also an expression that is not quite benevolent, an expression that reminds you that awe also means fear." @aubereylescure.bsky.social @grantamag.bsky.social longreads.com/2025/02/17/t...

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Longreads @longreads.com · 13/02/2025

"We rushed to my aunt’s, the children screaming. This was the first time we had experienced a bombing so close by." —Muhammad al-Zaqzouq for @nybooks.com (Translated by Katharine Halls.) longreads.com/2025/02/13/d...

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Longreads @longreads.com · 12/02/2025

"In a way, storage remains her most fixed address, an extension of home." @juliepoole.bsky.social @economichardship.bsky.social @slate.bsky.social longreads.com/2025/02/12/t...

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