Longreads

Sharing/publishing the best longform stories (#longreads) since 2009. Sister site of @Atavist. Mastodon: @[email protected]. Bluesky: @longreads.com

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"Not all human experiences are subject to progress." —Zadie Smith for @nybooks https://t.co/qTSG2r76dj

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"The McCanns vanished, as did Sally and Steve. It wasn’t that hard; they were living in the golden age of fugitives."

Read an excerpt from the new @atavist story by Barry Meier: https://t.co/SPUOHbSwaZ

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"But expertise only gets you so far in ballooning. Everyone, from the freshest-
faced rookie to the most experienced veteran, is at the mercy of the elements." —Katy Vine and Meher Yeda for @TexasMonthly #longreads

https://t.co/H5F8SCxcyo

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"I don’t know at what point performing for friends and rooting for your team falls over the edge into something darker." —@lyzl for @rollingstone https://t.co/QxD3nRT7U7

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"'Well, we’re dated!' the wife complains to her husband. 'That abstractionist next door built his house in space-time.'"

Gabriele Neri for @mitpress: https://t.co/dQX3TFiuNl

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"More familiarity just brings more questions—the birds become more mysterious, not less." Read a new essay from @the_jennitaur about soft eyes, deep listening, and other ways to strengthen how we perceive.

https://t.co/KLoB55ZlyY

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"Can you inherit someone else’s exile? How can I be from a country I’ve never known?"

Yasmin Roshanian for @OffAssignment: https://t.co/LYuriCrGVe

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"Psychologists have a term for a certain kind of relentless remembering: hyperthymesia." —Jonathan Weiner on autobiographical memory for @theamscho https://t.co/QW9DyuWBFs

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"As I put my compulsion into the world, and people began responding by texting me their own rabbit photos and tagging me in their posts, had I created my own deluded little bunny bubble?"

@nickhunebrown for @TheLocal_TO: https://t.co/rfxyLy9vJ1

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"I like this notion that the outside seeps in, I like the vulnerability that it allows, indeed forces us to acknowledge: we are made by what we swim inside."

An @Orion_Magazine conversation 🐟 with Lars Horn, Sabrina Imbler, Lulu Miller, and Joseph Osmundson: https://t.co/j2Jh4yr1vx

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"I know this experiment would be incredibly difficult if other people relied on a more consistent level of communication with me. But in reality, most of my friends are texting me about the NBA and Premier League, so I can afford to hit pause on that for a while." —@jrello9 for @nymag @strategist https://t.co/rd2Oi2fErx

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"His cheddar is hard to miss—beautiful clothbound truckles, a distinctive rind, a nutty, rich taste, and slightly crystalline texture."

The most stolen food in the world? Cheese! Olivia Potts slices into the fascinating world of cheese heists in our latest #longreads feature:

https://t.co/SSLXdlkfPX

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"After visiting São Paulo’s wild capybaras, I wondered if the rodents had made a mistake by moving to the big city."

Erick Trickey for @Slate: https://t.co/uVygh8PNCZ

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In "The Wayfinders," @JordanPHickey writes about the last nation on Earth without a soccer team.

https://t.co/KDUci3uYcX

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"At Compleat Kidz, a fast-growing chain of autism clinics based in North Carolina, the policy is firm: Naps cannot be longer than seven minutes before children are awakened to resume therapy."

Sarah Kliff and Margot Sanger-Katz for @nytimes: https://t.co/xTx8mmI85s

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"Hell is one of the most versatile nouns in the dataset. However, most of them have nothing to do with hell itself."

Russell Samora and Shelly Tan for @puddingviz: https://t.co/X8HXsfbZK2

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"Students constantly ask, so what do you do about writer’s block? You keep writing, you find a specific and small entry point and you continue on." @ramona_ausubel

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"I began ringing doorbells. Only one man answered; he came out wearing overalls. I asked if he would talk with me about the data center, and a poem. He looked up at the sky, considering my proposal. 'No,' he said." —@thomasjohnweber for @parisreview https://t.co/qiuNTuT0EG

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"At a time when manosphere podcasters extolling the virtues of female subservience are increasingly influential in public discourse...what could feel more apt than a group of pioneering feminist artists who confronted exasperatingly similar issues in their own lives?" —@amandafortini for @nytimes @tmagazine https://t.co/290RIvW7eC

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"Each night he slept in three single-size beds that had been pushed together to accommodate his frame. Each morning he rose at 4:30 to train."

@ramonashelburne for @espn: https://t.co/ckiQe6Js9B