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Sharing/publishing the best longform stories (#longreads) since 2009. Sister site of @Atavist. Mastodon: @[email protected]. Bluesky: @longreads.com

Worldwide Katılım Nisan 2009
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"Whatever I’ve been looking for in these books cannot really be accessed through ink and paper. It’s the kind of instruction I’ve only ever experienced through physical presence." Aria Aber for @yalereview: yalereview.org/article/aria-a…
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"Color is as much a part of our lives as air, water, and taxes. And it is maddeningly, beguilingly slippery." In a new excerpt from her forthcoming book, Kory Stamper details how her work @MerriamWebster launched her fascination with colors and the "dozens of overlapping concerns" that define them. longreads.com/2026/03/19/col…
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"By searching that data and cross-referencing it with other public records, we identified what we believed to be the name Banksy took. It is one of the most popular names in Britain, so common it helps him hide in plain sight." @Reuters reuters.com/investigates/s…
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"If I had to fill out an application and it asked me what my job description was, I’d say my job is to play music that allows people to find more of themselves." Russell E. L. Butler in conversation with Jeff Mills for @PioneerWorks_: pioneerworks.org/broadcast/jeff…
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"To local tribes, the scientists’ battle recalled pākehā fighting over access to Indigenous land—one of the oldest stories in New Zealand’s history." Sean Williams for Now Voyager: nowvoyagermag.com/reporting/bene…
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"The most fundamental consequences of being struck by lightning are often metaphysical . . . How does falling victim to one of the most notoriously unlikely of all misfortunes reorient your sense of chance, of fate?" —Jacob Stern for @TheAtlantic theatlantic.com/magazine/2026/…
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"Though I don’t go to visit my mother’s grave, I like to think of the devil here, on a sunny hillside in a small town in Kansas visiting his son." Traci Brimhall for @VQR: vqronline.org/fall-2025/essa…
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"That’s when things got weird. After his bingo, Cam drew the second blank plus EGLORV, giving him the opportunity for back-to-back bingos and a commanding lead." —Stefan Fatsis for @DefectorMedia defector.com/competitive-sc…
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