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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
This week we’re highlighting stories from Bryan Burrough, Josh Dzieza, Gabriella Paiella, Martha Lundin, and Patricia Marx.
Working on the Edge: A Reading List About Extreme Jobs
A livelihood is not a life—yet many risk the latter in order to create the former.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
This week we are sharing stories from Jessica Wilkerson, Meg Bernhard, Nicholas Hune-Brown, Jiayang Fan, and Alexander Wells.
Editors’ Picks
Essays and Features
The Greatest Hospitality Story Ever
While my uncle was dying from a rare cancer, he found solace in a hotel whose staff became a surrogate family.
Inside Man
Gary Settle has helped dozens of federal prisoners get compassionate release. Will it ever be his turn to go home?
I Think I’m Going to Be Sick
The ride technology at amusement parks has become more sophisticated. For ride-goers prone to motion sickness, the outcome can be messy.
When We Are Afraid
On teaching in a red state, the silences in our history lessons, and all I never learned about my hometown.
How to Survive a Car Crash in 10 Easy Steps
A journalist navigates a world forever changed by her traumatic brain injury.
Nathan
Language lessons with an extraordinary ape.
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Reading Lists
Relentless Toil: A Reading List About Filipino Laborers
The sacrifices of Filipino workers at home and abroad are enormous.
Outer Dark: A Cormac McCarthy Reading List
“Every man’s death is a standing in for every other. And since death comes to all there is no way to abate the fear of it except to love that man who stands for us.”
Return to the Saddle Club: A Reading List on Horse Girls
Celebrating the girls with an equine obsession.
Not Serious People: A ‘Succession’ Reading List
Great writing begets great writing — and the commentary around the HBO smash hit is some of the best around.
Tragedy in the Making: A Reading List About Unnatural Disasters
Six readings that interrogate the choices and forces behind so-called “natural disasters.”
Dead Moms Club: A Mother’s Day Reading List
“I recognize other dead mom kids almost instantly. They don’t pity — they laugh. They raise their hand for a high five. They respond with, ‘Mine too!’ and my whole body relaxes.”
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