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Ten Outstanding Short Stories to Read in 2022
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10 min read · Jan 11th · Longtime contributor Pravesh Bhardwaj read and and shared 276 short stories on the #longreads Twitter hashtag in 2021. Here are his favorites.
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Celebrating 13 Years of Longreads
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4 min read · Apr 21st · Ten favorite Longreads originals, as selected by the editors.
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What’s The Vibe? A Reading List
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7 min read · Apr 19th · Amorphous and intangible, a vibe is hard to describe. Let these five longreads sharpen your focus.
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Longreads: The best longform stories on the web
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3 min read · From 2015 · Longreads features the best storytelling on the web from hundreds of publishers. Story picks include longform journalism, short stories, in-depth interviews, and even historical documents.
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WIRED
Three Years of Misery Inside Google, the Happiest Company in Tech
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20+ min read · From 2019 · Sexual harassment. Hate speech. Employee walkouts. The Silicon Valley giant is trapped in a war against itself. And there’s no end in sight.
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Amid the wreckage of fallen startups, Longreads is increasing the original reporting it funds » Nieman Journalism…
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5 min read · From 2017 · A lot of startups have wanted to be "a great place for writers." Longreads appears to actually be succeeding at this.
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The Longreads Store
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1 min read · From 2018 · Wear your Longreads love on your sleeve. Literally. T-shirts, tote bags, hats, and more.
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The empty promises of Marie Kondo and the craze for minimalism
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~15 min read · From 2020 · The long read: From the ‘KonMari method’ to Apple’s barely-there design philosophy, we are forever being urged to declutter and simplify our lives. But does minimalism really make us any happier?
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Critical Attrition
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~14 min read · 2021-08-18 · In fact, all the reviews from his Longreads and Reallylongreads have been like this recently, claiming to be about one thing only to be about something else — usually Sally Rooney, Ben Lerner, and…
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Celebrating 13 Years of Longreads
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What’s The Vibe? A Reading List
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7 min read · Apr 19th · Amorphous and intangible, a vibe is hard to describe. Let these five longreads sharpen your focus.
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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
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4 min read · May 6th · This week, we’re sharing stories from Washington City Paper, Astra Taylor and Sunaura Taylor, Leslie Jamison, Mark Pupo, and Madeleine Aggeler.
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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
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4 min read · Apr 29th · This week, we’re sharing stories from Tamara Dean, Samanth Subramanian, Sasha Plotnikova, Steve Edwards, and Caity Weaver.
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~11 min read · From 2014 · Anthony Bourdain’s 1999 memoir about working in Manhattan restaurants. “Gastronomy is the science of pain. It was the unsavory side of professional cooking that attracted me to it in the first place.”
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From 2017 · She lived with us for 56 years. She raised me and my siblings without pay. I was 11, a typical American kid, before I realized who she was.
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20+ min read · From 2017 · How the tech giant is trying to leverage the science of breakthroughs and resurrect the lost art of invention
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What It’s Like to Lose Your Short-Term Memory : Longreads
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~17 min read · From 2017 · An exclusive excerpt from the new memoir by Christine Hyung-Oak Lee.
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What Happens When Your Career Becomes Your Whole Identity
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6 min read · From 2019 · Don’t let the weight of your job squash your sense of self.
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Longreads Best of 2020: Arts and Culture
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~12 min read · 2020-12-16 · Our top editors’ picks in arts and culture writing this year.
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What We Remember: A Reading List on Archives
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WIRED
All the Ways Facebook Tracks You—and How to Limit It
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2 min read · From 2020 · If you have a Facebook account—and even if you don't—the company is going to collect data about you. But you can at least control how it gets used.
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