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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.