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Constructions, Concoctions, Conjurations: A Reading List on the Curious World of Conlangs
5+ hour, 44+ min ago (1395+ words) Longreads: The best longform stories on the web Longreads has published hundreds of original stories'personal essays, reported features, reading lists, and more'and more than 14, 000 editor's picks. And they're all funded by readers like you. Become a member today. AIGONZ is…...
Curiosity as Compassion: A Conversation with Susan Orlean
1+ week, 5+ hour ago (613+ words) Longreads: The best longform stories on the web Longreads has published hundreds of original stories'personal essays, reported features, reading lists, and more'and more than 14, 000 editor's picks. And they're all funded by readers like you. Become a member today. Susan Orlean…...
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
1+ week, 6+ day ago (116+ words) Longreads: The best longform stories on the web " Showing our age " Special delivery " Unfriendly wagers " A shore thing " Sale therapy Become a Longreads Member for just $5 per month Follow us on Tumblr Tuesdays and Thursdays, we'll send you our latest…...
The Longreads Questionnaire, Featuring Cory Doctorow
2+ week, 1+ day ago (793+ words) Longreads: The best longform stories on the web I grew up in suburban Toronto (North York). I left home at 17 and moved'first with housemates in downtown Toronto and then to Baja California for a while, because I thought I could…...
The Cousin Returns
2+ week, 2+ day ago (1978+ words) Longreads: The best longform stories on the web Joseph Trinidad | Longreads | June 16, 2026 | 5, 165 words (18 minutes)" "The Cousin Returns" is a chapter from Lucky Creatures, a debut essay collection from Joseph Trinidad, published by Sarabande Books on June 16, 2026. This excerpt has been…...
The Top Five Longreads of the Week
2+ week, 6+ day ago (119+ words) Longreads: The best longform stories on the web Showcasing stories from Sloane Crosley; Zadie Smith; Mark Johnson'and'Saumya Khandelwal; Todd Kliman; and Sheila Liming. Become a Longreads Member for just $5 per month Follow us on Tumblr Tuesdays and Thursdays, we'll send…...
It's More Like a Playlist: Lavinia Spalding on Editing the Best Women's Travel Writing
3+ week, 1+ hour ago (597+ words) Longreads: The best longform stories on the web Here, she takes us behind the scenes of volume 13: what she looked for in more than 1, 600 submissions, why grief and levity can help shape powerful travel narratives, and what she still hopes…...
Living in an Alive World
1+ mon, 1+ hour ago (1621+ words) Tuesdays and Thursdays, we'll send you our latest originals and all our editor's picks'and Fridays, go even deeper with our Top 5 of the Week. We've depended on readers like you from the very beginning'and now more than ever. If you…...
Nothing Together
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (1123+ words) Tuesdays and Thursdays, we'll send you our latest originals and all our editor's picks'and Fridays, go even deeper with our Top 5 of the Week. When you search for the term "longreads," you're looking for a great story to sink into....
"Aren't the Organs a Silver Lining?"
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (223+ words) Tuesdays and Thursdays, we'll send you our latest originals and all our editor's picks'and Fridays, go even deeper with our Top 5 of the Week. We've depended on readers like you from the very beginning'and now more than ever. If you…...