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Editors’ Picks

The Final Days

Franklin Foer | The Atlantic | August 29, 2023 | 9,259 words

“A terrible failure of planning necessitated a mad scramble—a mad scramble that was an impressive display of creative determination.”

Why We Fight

Linda Button | Pangyrus | August 29, 2023 | 2,069 words

“By 7:30pm the air in the dojang is heavy with sweat. The full spectrum: from the salty tang of effort to the nasal clearing ammonia of fear.”

Chuck Palahniuk Is Not Who You Think He Is

Jonathan Russell Clark | Esquire | August 29, 2023 | 5,435 words

“Twenty-six books in, the author has made a career of writing about loners, misfits, and deviants. But the man behind these controversial and transgressive fictions is full of surprises.”

What Is Time For?

Zena Hitz | Plough | August 16, 2023 | 3,774 words

“Everyone is too busy. How would we spend our time if we weren’t?”

Canada in the Year 2060

Anne Shibata Casselman | Maclean’s | August 10, 2023 | 7,252 words

“Summers lost to fire and smoke. Biblical floods. Dying forests. Retreating coasts. Economic turmoil and political unrest. It’s going to be a weird century.”

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Essays and Features

Taken and Told

A filmmaker was producing a documentary series on the Iran hostage crisis. Then her father went missing overseas.
by Longreads

Ron’s Place

A man’s death revealed his secret masterpiece—his rented home, illegally transformed into a classical villa. What happened next questions how we define art.
by Max Olesker

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Our year-end collection

All the top #longreads of 2022, selected by our editors, featured authors, and readers.

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