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Latest from Longreads
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- Up a Creek
- The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
- Inside the Subreddit Where Men Share Their Dinners—And Their Most Intimate Feelings
- The People of Utah vs. Kevin O’Leary
- The True Cost of Rape in America
- The Longreads Questionnaire, Featuring Erika Hayasaki
- She Died at the San Diego Border. A Surveillance Camera Was in Plain Sight.
- How AI Replaced Me
- Orange Era
- ‘The Eels Were Climbing Out of the Water to Die ’: Why Did Every Fish in This Idyllic Lake Perish Overnight?
- The Bizarre, Murky History of Soviet-Born Tetris
- The Unforeseen Something
- Toadstools and Toxins
- Behind His Great Novels, an Unbearable Family Secret
- What It Feels Like at Cornell Right Now
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Where it sits in Ideas & Longform
- #11 Africa Is a Country79
- #12 Guernica79
- #13 Longreads78
- #14 Noahpinion77
- #15 The Diff77
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