"If working in the Rubin style puts you under the machine, Eno works beside it." Frank Chimero on AI and creative agency: frankchimero.com/blog/2025/be...

"I took the long walk to the billing counter. It was the first time I had dealt directly with the logistics of death instead of grieving in my head." —Jennifer Thuy Vi Nguyen on duality, detachment, and life and death decisions. longreads.com/2025/11/06/i...

Love this essay, by Jennifer Thuy Vi Nguyen: longreads.com/2024/06/11/c...

"From the age of 11 she wanted to be a director 'to compensate for being an ugly girl with a fiery temper.' In 2008 she arrived in Moscow ready to learn her craft." —Arkady Ostrovsky for @economist.com's 1843 Magazine

"The Weekly printed the piece, and it launched my career – which came to an end five years later, in 2020, when the government abruptly shuttered the magazine." —Soyonbo Borjgin for the first issue of @equatormag.bsky.social

"While stealing art is a challenge, selling it—and making a profit—is much, much harder." Read an excerpt of the new @atavist.com story by Jack Rodolico, about a hard-working art thief—and the list he used to rob the rich: longreads.com/2025/11/04/b...

" I’d scour profiles in an effort to figure out where these men were coming from, why they seemed to oppose the things I’d previously spent a career fighting for . . ." —Vera Papisova for Cosmopolitan www.cosmopolitan.com/uk/love-sex/...

"This fight for political autonomy fostered a sense of local pride and a desire to express a distinct DC identity, one undeniably Black. The Blackbyrds’ music embodied that desire." Charlotte Taylor Fryar for @orionmagazine.bsky.social: orionmagazine.org/article/the-...

"This time of year is for drawing back, harvesting the fruits of our labors, gathering in celebration, taking stock. Humbling ourselves to the cycle, the coming darkness." @hollyhaworth.bsky.social @emergencemagazine.bsky.social emergencemagazine.org/essay/a-circ...

"Groove Theory’s approach to the love song is, instead, to ask the question: What if the spectacle is patience? Or what if the spectacle is slow, consistent sacrifice?" 30 Years Later: Groove Theory, “Groove Theory” | Hanif Abdurraqib | @longreads.com longreads.com/2025/10/23/g...

"The statues and the inhumane ideas they celebrated shadowed my childhood. But seeing these figures here, now, sitting in their temporary new home, as if they were naughty children in a timeout, was surprisingly satisfying." — @jennydeluxe.bsky.social

"I lament how cruel the world has become. I think about how immigrant children are facilitating the divisive politics of the country, when they should know better." —Tam Hussein for @newlinesmag.bsky.social newlinesmag.com/spotlight/re...

I've written some of my very favourite essays for @longreads.com (and worked with some great editors). You can read the rest here: longreads.com/author/idumi...

In our Weekly Top 5: * Media mistrust @harpers.bsky.social * Hunting identity @bittersouth.bsky.social * Meat and pota-woes @serious-eats.bsky.social * Celebrating cinephilia @lrb.co.uk * Knightley news @thetimes.com longreads.com/2025/10/31/t...

"Suddenly, the teenager from Teddington who just wanted to be a theatre actress was one of the most famous women in the world." —Caitlin Moran for @thetimes.com www.thetimes.com/life-style/c...

"When you’re Black, every place here might be where you’re from, a forgotten ancestor beneath the soil, all of them pulling on you: Come to us. So, I listened." Nylah Iqbal Muhammad for @bittersouth.bsky.social: bittersoutherner.com/issue-no-12/... 📸: Jaida Grey Eagle & Camille Farrah Lenain

"The thing they never tell you when you get a dog is how much more time you’ll spend looking at shit. When another veterinarian said Kai’s poop could indicate the issue, I spent a cumulative hour each day looking at it, was sometimes phalanx-deep in it." longreads.com/2025/10/28/y...

"It’s a complicated situation: The health and well-being of people along the coast depends on fishing, yet too much fishing is a key reason why the reef, and the fishery it supports, is in decline." @benjij.bsky.social for @vox.com: www.vox.com/climate/4650...

"Innumerable hours cleaning an unceremoniously stitched wound and endless bowls of pumpkin purée—which, if you have a canine, you quickly learn is the supposed cure-all for digestive ailments, WD40 for dog innards." longreads.com/2025/10/28/y...

"What worries me more is the lack of outrage, the lack of interest, and the lack of pushback by the general public." —@maxtani.bsky.social, with @jelaniya.bsky.social @taylorlorenz.bsky.social & @jackshafer.bsky.social for @harpers.bsky.social

"Madden’s note positioned the existence of the curve as a metaphor for the susceptibility of modern mass society to fascist delusion." @bolman.bsky.social for @pioneerwork.bsky.social: pioneerworksbroadcast.substack.com/p/when-baseb...

Stevie Chedid's beautiful new essay for #longreads explores an untranslatable word that raises questions of loss and love. "What’s in a word? Subjective multitudes. Memories—an endless string of cherished, ephemeral moments." longreads.com/2025/10/28/y...

"These figures were aggressive, but not malevolent. Their purpose seemed twofold: to make us know they were there, and that we could do nothing about it." @tommaxwell.bsky.social for @bittersouth.bsky.social: bittersoutherner.com/we-salted-na...

"He played music through earplugs—the Rolling Stones, Tchaikovsky—at minimum volume. Then he centered himself. When he could hear the music, he could hear his own heartbeat, and he was ready to suffer." — @swilliamsjourno.bsky.social for @outsidemag.bsky.social www.outsideonline.com/outdoor-adve...

Great article by @efriend.bsky.social addressing the function of "vanishing hitchhiker" stories. I make parallel connections in my "Crossroads" section addressing the idea of roadside spirits (from famed Resurrection Mary to lesser-known stories), their tropes & purposes in AMERICA'S MOST GOTHIC.

"Patriarchy demands women walk a narrow path from home to marriage, from maidenhood to motherhood, and to deviate invites tragedy." @efriend.bsky.social on the "vanishing hitchhiker" legend and 👻 stories across generations: longreads.com/2024/10/29/l...

"Economists call it doom spending: a nihilistic spin on retail therapy." Courtney Shea for @macleans.bsky.social: macleans.ca/longforms/th...

"But every once in a while, Claude breaks bad. It lies. It deceives. It develops weird obsessions. . .And the frustrating part—true of all LLMs—is that no one knows exactly why." @stevenlevy.bsky.social @wired.com www.wired.com/story/ai-bla...

Love deeply reported personal essays and narrative journalism? On the CNF podcast, @provenself.bsky.social talks about the joys of both and the Longreads Member Drive. Have a listen and check out the full episode: pca.st/6o68d537

"Childers, the historian, called national parks the 'canary in the coal mine' for threats to public lands" –Gloria Liu for RE:PUBLIC Lands Media and Outside Magazine www.republic.land/whats-the-tr...

Great weekend listening, right here! For the @studyhall.bsky.social podcast, our own @provenself spoke with @danielspielberger.bsky.social about the importance of curation, telling original stories, and the Longreads Member Drive pca.st/3932gtfx

This week's Top 5: • Haunted pages, @aeon.co • When fame fades, @harpers.bsky.social ial • Cracked open, @nybooks.com s.com • Striving forever, @theamscho.bsky.social ho.bsky.social • Back to blogging, @talkingpointsmemo.com pointsmemo.com longreads.com/2025/10/24/t...

"The remix doesn’t say I can do this better, at least not always. The remix says I want to spend more time with you, I want to see the light fall on you from every possible angle." Hanif Abdurraqib on Groove Theory and R&B and sunset drives: longreads.com/2025/10/23/g...

"The reason I always picked sunset to make these circular drives around the outerbelt is because as a commitment to my sometimes unwieldy romanticism, I surrender to the reality of the infinite catalog of sunsets." —Hanif Abdurraqib for @longreads.com longreads.com/2025/10/23/g...

ICYMI: an interview with Peter Rubin, an editor at @longreads.com! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

"As our trip went on, I noticed that Saul was starting to imitate Pee-Wee’s mannerisms. He was also starting to sour a little on Teddy Roosevelt." —Sam Graham-Felsen for The New York Times Magazine

Thirty years ago tomorrow, Groove Theory released their one and only album. Throw it on and read the great Hanif Abdurraqib unpacking its many gifts. longreads.com/2025/10/23/g...

I have found such good writers thanks to the wide sweep and excellent curation of the editors at Longreads!

"Moonlight poured through a hole in the roof, bathing the floor in a pale blue and illuminating a column of dust. In normal life, I struggle to summon visuals in my head; here I was Rembrandt." @chriscolin3000.bsky.social for @nytimes.com: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/m...

"Did I really do that? Was that me? How could something so marvelous have happened? I would be surprised if Jim Whitehead did not sometimes entertain those thoughts." —Steve Yarbrough for @theamscho.bsky.social

"When I did show interest in a dish, my family would latch onto it with a kind of wild desperation I now recognize in myself when I try to feed my son." @irinadumitrescu.bsky.social @serious-eats.bsky.social www.seriouseats.com/the-kid-is-a...

Help keep Longreads a safe haven for weird and wonderful stories—a place writers and readers can trust. longreads.com/join/?utm_so...

Great chat with Peter Rubin of @longreads.com about longform storytelling, liveblogging, the attention economy, and more! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

"They don’t confront us like mountains, comfort us like oceans, or envelop us like forests; they don’t seem to want to have anything to do with us at all. Swamps hide. Swamps demur." longreads.com/2025/10/02/t...

The Louvre heist wasn’t just about stolen jewels—it was a loss of history. Elizabeth Blackwell’s latest reading list looks at how museums everywhere reveal who we are: longreads.com/2025/10/21/l...

"Satellite images showing burned-out shells of homes, our homes. Thirty years on the top of the hill disappeared in one windy night." —Vanessa Holyoak for @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social lareviewofbooks.org/article/one-...

“I just thought it was so beautiful, and it made death a little bit more like a celebration of someone's life.” Michele Herrmann for @smithsonianmag.bsky.social: www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture...

"The earlier internet was a haven, everyone making it up as they went along. You couldn’t use it to buy stuff and have it delivered the next day, but you could communicate with people, old and new friends, anywhere, instantly." By @phil.gyford.com: www.gyford.com/phil/writing...

"I was lorn, damn it, and depressed. But then arroz imperial sauntered, slick with mayonnaise, into my consciousness, and she demanded answers." —Caroline Hatchett for @bittersouth.bsky.social bittersoutherner.com/issue-no12/a...

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