#editorspicks — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #editorspicks, aggregated by home.social.
-
Become a Longreads member if you aren’t already to receive our Top 5 in your inbox on Fridays, plus some additional member perks we're cooking up now.
https://longreads.com/join/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social
-
Become a Longreads member if you aren’t already to receive our Top 5 in your inbox on Fridays, plus some additional member perks we're cooking up now.
https://longreads.com/join/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social
-
Become a Longreads member if you aren’t already to receive our Top 5 in your inbox on Fridays, plus some additional member perks we're cooking up now.
https://longreads.com/join/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social
-
Become a Longreads member if you aren’t already to receive our Top 5 in your inbox on Fridays, plus some additional member perks we're cooking up now.
https://longreads.com/join/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social
-
Become a Longreads member if you aren’t already to receive our Top 5 in your inbox on Fridays, plus some additional member perks we're cooking up now.
https://longreads.com/join/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social
-
Crazy Town: Episode 124. Take Me to the River: Getting Rid of Deadbeat Dams
-
In the Rising Tide, Episode 1. Louise Mabulo: The chef who grew a forest
-
Become a Longreads member if you aren’t already to receive our Top 5 in your inbox on Fridays, plus some additional member perks we're cooking up for 2026.
https://longreads.com/join/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social
-
This week's Top 5:
* Subsea storytelling (Wired)
* Preservation paradox @hackernoon
* Serpentine symbiosis (Oxford American)
* Investigating infinity @QuantaMagazine
* Marijuana mystery @sfgatehttps://longreads.com/2026/02/27/top-5-of-week-599/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social
-
This week's Top 5:
* Gambling's grip (Harper's Magazine)
* Of plumes and poachers (The Bitter Southerner)
* Bemoaning Americans in Rome (The Dial)
* Magical history tour (Texas Monthly)
* Fake poultry flinger (Slate)https://longreads.com/2026/01/23/top-5-longreads-594/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social
-
Here's what we have for you in this week's Top 5:
• Midair mayhem (The New Statesman)
• Know when to fold 'em (Slate)
• For art's sake (The Economist)
• Breech of trust (The Guardian)
• May it trees the court (Harper's Magazine)Learn why our editors have recommended these pieces and find out which story our audience loved most.
https://longreads.com/2025/12/19/top-5-longreads-591/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social
-
In this week's Top 5:
* Rise of the machines (New York Review of Architecture)
* Help me, Seymour! (Garden & Gun)
* Crossing the party line (Equator)
* A powerful instrument (https://frankchimero.com)
* Turn, turn, turn (Emergence Magazine)Hear from our editors on each story, and find out this week's audience favorite!
https://longreads.com/2025/11/07/the-top-5-longreads-of-the-week-586/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social
#Longreads #WeeklyTop5 #EditorsPicks #Curation -
Crazy Town: Episode 113. Searching for the Golden Toad with Kyle and Trevor Ritland
-
Here's what we've got for you in our Weekly Top 5:
* Media mistrust (Harper's Magazine)
* Hunting identity (The Bitter Southerner)
* Meat and pota-woes (Serious Eats)
* Celebrating cinephilia @lrb
* Knightley news (The Times)Learn why our editors have recommended these pieces and find out which story our audience loved most.
-
Here's what we've got for you in our Weekly Top 5:
* Subsidizing carnage (The Local)
* “Best” American poetry (Defector)
* Frail fibers (The Guardian)
* A crabby savior (The American Scholar)
* Feline fealty (The Sun Magazine)Learn why our editors have recommended these pieces and find out which story our audience loved most.
-
Here's what we've got for you in our Weekly Top 5:
* The legend of the levee boss (The American Scholar)
* Identity in the age of AI (Harper's Magazine)
* The rules of Rave Club (The Fence Magazine)
* Studying philosophy in prison (Aeon)
* French fry why (Toronto Life)Learn why our editors have recommended these pieces and find out which story our audience loved most.
-
Here's what we've got for you in our Weekly Top 5:
* The politics of pools (Earth Island Journal)
* Not so nice mining ice (The Walrus)
* Ultrarunning scamp or champ? (5280 Magazine)
* Tom fauxlery (The Verge)
* Smells like snail spirit (Texas Monthly)Learn why our editors have recommended these pieces and find out which story our audience loved most.
-
Here's what we've got for you in our Weekly Top 5:
• Symbiosis steeped in irony (Washington Post)
• The hidden lives of rocks (Atmos)
• Journalism’s facts machine (The Yale Review)
• What’s up, sun? (Noēma)
• Puzzling through problems (The American Scholar)Learn why our editors have recommended these pieces and find out which story our audience loved most.
https://longreads.com/2025/07/25/longreads-top-5-572/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social
-
Here's what we've got for you in our Weekly Top 5:
* A first-person flood account (Texas Monthly)
* Californians icing ICE @RollingStone
* Sexually diverse vegetables (Noēma)
* Pokémon: Go! (Virginia Quarterly Review)
* Polo clonies (Wired)Learn why our editors have recommended these pieces and find out which story our audience loved most.
-
Here's what we've got for you in our Weekly Top 5:
* Wildfire: too close and personal (Alta Journal)
* Running from demons (The Economist)
* Experiments in microdosing (5280 Magazine)
* Reading is hard (Vox)
* "Jackass" as a love language (Bright Wall/Dark Room)Learn why our editors have recommended these pieces and find out which story our audience loved most.
-
Here's what we've got for you in our Weekly Top 5:
* Tracking greed (n+1 Magazine)
* Teaching through terminal illness (Stanford Magazine)
* Pivoting as a pastor (The New York Times)
* Reading poetry, closely (Slate)
* Breaking bad loading habits (The Atlantic)Learn why our editors have recommended these pieces and find out which story our audience loved most.
-
Here's what we've got for you in our Weekly Top 5:
* Long COVID camaraderie (Men's Health)
* Breeding terrorists on Telegram @ProPublica / Frontline
* 737 Max coverup (Wired)
* Petrusich profiles Dacus (The New Yorker)
* The Irish pub as export (Smithsonian Magazine)Learn why our editors have recommended these pieces and find out which story our audience loved most.
-
Here's what we've got for you in our Weekly Top 5:
* Propagate language, preserve culture (Noēma)
* Hip-hop hooch hustles (Taste)
* Grieving a landscape lost (Salvation South)
* A gutsy take on indigestion (VQR)
* All the feels for the forums (The Fence)Learn why our editors have recommended these pieces and find out which story our audience loved most.
-
"This wasn’t a huge cause for concern on its own. Plenty of teenagers smoke weed, after all, and turn out just fine. Anne and I just hoped it wouldn’t lead to anything else." —Scott Oake for The Walrus
#longreads #editorspicks #addiction #BruceOake #BruceOakeRecoveryCentre
-
"The wind gusts reached 100 miles per hour and the smoke was thick and rancid. Sarvis watched electric cars explode and garbage bins tip over, fill with flames, and blow down the streets like missiles." @jbienkahn for @RollingStone
-
Here's what we've got for you in our Weekly Top 5:
* Dying to seek asylum in Canada (The Local)
* The rise of UFC @RollingStone
* Hoarding at the British Museum (The Guardian)
* A mystery at Lake Tahoe (Bay Nature)
* Dog dialogue (NYT Mag)Learn why our editors have recommended these pieces and find out which story our audience loved most.
-
"In the shallows of south Lake Tahoe, diver Brandon Berry is slurping up clouds of algae with an underwater vacuum cleaner. . . The filamentous, cotton-candy-like algae is a persistent affliction here, where it intermittently grows, dies, washes up on the shoreline, and rots in unsightly, smelly piles." —Sonya Bennett-Brandt for Bay Nature magazine
https://longreads.com/2025/01/17/what-lies-beneath-2/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social
-
"I had long understood crosswords as an art form, but I began to appreciate them as serious records of culture and current affairs." —Abigail Popple for Maisonneuve
https://longreads.com/2025/01/15/puzzle-politics/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social
#longreads #editorspicks #crosswordpuzzles #education #politics #popularculture
-
"Her Little Free Art Library on Queen Anne was designed like a museum, with lighting and white walls, a tiny bench for viewing (with minifigures observing the display), and a tiny easel and shelf displaying drawings and paintings with dimensions of just a few inches." —Rebekah Denn for @civileats
-
"Nathan tried to encourage her to leave. 'You need to get yourself out of this situation,” he said. “You need to be careful. If they’ve done it once, what’s going to stop them from doing something like that again?'”
—Ian Frisch for Curbedhttps://www.curbed.com/article/houston-apartment-affordable-place-turned-hellish.html
-
"Sniffing, searching, naming: These actions enable us to more thoughtfully engage with our environment. The more I sniffed at bark, the more confused I became. What did pine even smell like, anyway? It was only when I stepped back that the forest came into view. Iconic and piney, certainly, but also so much more." —Katy Kelleher for Nautilus Magazine
-
“'During the pregnancy, you’ll be a spectator,' Margot warned us very early on, drawing the delicate boundary between her pregnancy and our child. This is our first surrogacy journey, but we are Margot’s third parents." —Kristina Kasparian for Electric Literature
-
"For most of his adult life, he had worried about climate change. But as time wore on, he had begun to think that collapse was inevitable." —Michaela Cavanagh for Hazlitt
-
Here's what we've got for you in our Weekly Top 5:
* An opioid town’s turnaround @nymag
* A love letter to cardboard (Places Journal)
* The chemicals animals provide (Works in Progress)
* Computerized companions @verge
* The transfiguration of Jude Law (British GQ)Learn why our editors have recommended these pieces and find out which story our audience loved most.
-
"But it also comes down to being able to enjoy our lives in really simple ways. To really do that, we need to slow down. One activity that absolutely requires slowing down is cooking food from scratch (and cleaning up the kitchen afterwards). —Lily Sánchez for Current Affairs
https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/2022/11/on-slowing-down-to-cook#fn2-24494
#Longreads #EditorsPicks #Food #HomeMade #Cooking #SlowingDown
-
"In the vault of the Millennium Seed Bank, the woodland trees of today, or at least their genes, will go into hibernation. Perhaps they will be planted in the far north of the planet. Perhaps there will be woodlands there with the genetic fingerprint of the Bedford Purlieus Wood." —Veronique Greenwood for Nautilus
-
“In other words, there is a world in which the story of self-driving taxis might be more fairy tale than nightmare. It’s just that cities have to bargain for it.” @WIRED
https://www.wired.com/story/waymo-robotaxi-driverless-future/
-
"Horses are exquisite machines. As prey animals, their greatest survival tools are designed for flight, and every sense is finely geared toward safety. In the wild, they spend the entirety of their lives within the eyesight of another horse." —Sterry Butcher for The New York Times Magazine
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/12/magazine/warwick-schiller-horses.html
-
"Engagement had plummeted, grades were declining and, because Adam was constantly policing students’ phone use, his bond with them was fraying." —Luc Rinaldi for MacLean's
-
Here's what we've got for you in our Weekly Top 5:
* The endorphins of community @nymag
* Environmentalism and the far right @ProPublica
* Richard Gadd, post-Baby Reindeer (British GQ)
* Documenting graves as a hobby @slate
* Revolutionary bike riders in Afghanistan (Bicycling Magazine)Learn why our editors have recommended these pieces and find out which story our audience loved most.
-
"I understand why she will jump on a seventeen-foot python and set aside her love of snakes to drive a pithing knife into its brain. I understand how life in the Everglades is both delicate and resilient, and how poignant it is to mourn the power we have to destroy, and to wield the power we have to heal." —Lindsey Liles for Garden & Gun
https://gardenandgun.com/feature/python-hunter/
#Longreads #EditorsPicks #Florida #InvasiveSpecies #BurmesePythons
-
"I think this is important: memories and ideas happen in a place. An essay is a place for ideas; it has to feel like a place. It has to give one the feeling of entering a room." —Elisa Gabbert for The Georgia Review
https://thegeorgiareview.com/posts/the-essay-as-realm/
#Longreads #EditorsPicks #Essays #PersonalEssays #Architecture
-
Here's what we've got for you in our Weekly Top 5:
* Suffering from environmental illness at Harper's Magazine
* The double-edged sword that is social media at The Walrus
* Uncovering painful family secrets @nymag
* Jail library book treasures at Split Lip Magazine
* Cooking as a free man @sfgateLearn why our editors have recommended these pieces and find out which story our audience loved most.
-
"A perfect storm is brewing in Canada. Before the boomers die and pass their wealth down to their heirs, they’re going to get old, and that’s going to cost Canada a lot of money." —Katrina Onstad for Maclean's
https://macleans.ca/society/the-jackpot-generation/
#Longreads #EditorsPicks #Canada #Boomers #IntergenerationalWealth #IntergenerationalMobility
