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- How to survive a car crash https://longreads.com/2023/05/11/how-to-survive-a-car-crash-traumatic-brain-injury-10-easy-steps/ 87 comments
- Queens of Infamy: Isabella of France https://longreads.com/2022/06/21/queens-of-infamy-isabella-of-france/ 5 comments
- Filling a cultural void, one braided loaf at a time https://longreads.com/2022/05/19/our-braided-bread-challah-essay/ 9 comments
- The Great British Reading List https://longreads.com/2021/11/11/the-great-british-reading-list/ 38 comments
- Somewhere Under My Left Ribs: A Nurse’s Story (2018) https://longreads.com/2018/05/31/somewhere-under-my-left-ribs-a-nurses-story/ 26 comments
- Why bumblebees love cats and other beautiful relationships https://longreads.com/2021/03/23/nation-of-plants-excerpt-stefano-mancuso/ 74 comments
- Betting the Farm on the Drought (2015) https://longreads.com/2019/08/22/betting-the-farm-on-the-drought/ 41 comments
- We All Work for Facebook https://longreads.com/2019/04/26/we-all-work-for-facebook/ 173 comments
- Stalin’s Scheherazade: An opportunistic literary caper became a lifelong con https://longreads.com/2019/02/06/stalins-scheherazade/ 2 comments
- ‘Emerging’ as a Writer After 40 https://longreads.com/2018/11/28/emerging-as-a-writer-after-40/ 62 comments
- Insomnia: To Pursue Sleep So Hard You Become Invigorated by the Chase https://longreads.com/2018/11/15/insomnia-to-pursue-sleep-so-hard-you-become-invigorated-by-the-chase/ 17 comments
- The Forever Nomad https://longreads.com/2018/04/30/the-forever-nomad/ 9 comments
- Bootlegging Jane’s Addiction https://longreads.com/2017/11/13/bootlegging-janes-addiction/ 29 comments
- Well-Aimed and Powerful (2015) https://longreads.com/2015/07/07/well-aimed-and-powerful/amp/ 12 comments
- Hello, Lenin? Berlin, 1997 https://longreads.com/2017/02/02/ostalgie-berlin-1997/ 59 comments
- LongReads: a refuge of long-form articles in this Twitter-crazy world http://longreads.com/ 11 comments
- Deconstructing Disney: Queer Coding and Masculinity in Pocahontas https://longreads.com/2021/04/13/deconstructing-disney-queer-coding-and-masculinity-in-pocahontas/ 3 comments truereddit
- You've Seen The Sick Behind-The-Net "Lacrosse" Style Goal, Sometimes Called "the Michigan". Here's the Amazing Story of Where it Came From And What It Really Should Be Named. https://longreads.com/2020/06/01/the-nhls-lacrosse-takeover/ 13 comments hockey
- How two kids from London, Ontario birthed the most unique goal in hockey’s history. Featuring Evgeny and Andrei Svevchnikov, Nils Hoglander, Mike Legg, Bill Armstrong and more. https://longreads.com/2020/06/01/the-nhls-lacrosse-takeover/ 3 comments hockey
- How the Toronto Raptors and the Vancouver Grizzlies Revived the NBA https://longreads.com/2019/06/07/how-the-toronto-raptors-and-the-vancouver-grizzlies-revived-the-nba/ 12 comments nba
- We All Work for Facebook https://longreads.com/2019/04/26/we-all-work-for-facebook/ 16 comments technology
- Is It Ever Too Late to Pursue a Dream? Dan Stoddard believes there is room in the NBA for a 42-year-old rookie. https://longreads.com/2019/03/19/is-it-ever-too-late-to-pursue-a-dream/ 22 comments nba
- ‘I Spent Two Years Researching Before I Wrote a Single Line’: Geeking Out With Marlon James https://longreads.com/2019/02/05/interview-with-marlon-james/ 16 comments books
- The Hunt for Planet Nine: what will it take to find the biggest missing object in the solar system? https://longreads.com/2019/01/22/the-hunt-for-planet-nine/ 4 comments space
- Home Field Disadvantage: What will it take to get women’s baseball the recognition it deserves? https://longreads.com/2018/11/29/womens-baseball-world-cup-2018/ 42 comments baseball
- Did We Learn Nothing From the 2008 Crisis? https://longreads.com/2018/10/02/did-we-learn-nothing-from-the-2008-crisis/ 3 comments indepthstories
- When Anthony Ray Hinton was sentenced to death for two murders he didn’t commit, he used his time to create a book club for death row inmates. https://longreads.com/2018/03/27/the-death-row-book-club/ 763 comments books
- The Internet Isn’t Forever - The new battle over journalism’s digital legacy https://longreads.com/2018/02/20/the-internet-isnt-forever/ 10 comments technology
- The Dog Breeds Disappearing in India https://longreads.com/2017/12/05/the-dog-breeds-disappearing-in-india/ 13 comments india
- How the NBA Failed Royce White https://longreads.com/2017/08/31/how-the-nba-failed-royce-white 26 comments nba
- Here at the End of All Things: On losing oneself in the geography of fantasy worlds, from Middle Earth to Westeros. https://longreads.com/2017/08/24/fantasy-maps-game-of-thrones/ 30 comments books
- How the NBA Failed Royce White https://longreads.com/2017/08/31/how-the-nba-failed-royce-white/ 3 comments nba
- Family Band - Racquet Magazine on the Zverevs https://longreads.com/2017/08/22/family-band/amp/ 4 comments tennis
- The Louisiana Environmental Apocalypse Road Trip https://longreads.com/2017/07/13/the-louisiana-environmental-apocalypse-road-trip/ 4 comments politics
- Your Phone Was Made By Slaves: A Primer on the Secret Economy https://longreads.com/2016/03/08/your-phone-was-made-by-slaves-a-primer-on-the-secret-economy/ 4 comments india
- ‘Just Pure Greed’: A Journalist Exposes Jared Kushner’s Baltimore Housing History https://longreads.com/2017/05/23/just-pure-greed-a-journalist-exposes-jared-kushners-baltimore-housing-history/ 3 comments politics
- My Electric Bike is Not ‘Cheating.’ And It Could Replace Cars for Millions of People (xpost from /r/bicycleculture) https://longreads.com/2017/05/19/my-electric-bike-is-not-cheating/ 45 comments bicycling
- What It’s Like to Lose Your Short-Term Memory https://longreads.com/2017/02/08/what-its-like-to-lose-your-short-term-memory/# 10 comments cogsci
- Remembering Jerry Krause, Architect Behind the Greatest NBA Team Ever Assembled https://longreads.com/2017/03/24/remembering-jerry-krause-architect-behind-the-greatest-nba-team-ever-assembled/ 4 comments nba
- In 1971, the People Didn’t Just March on Washington — They Shut It Down https://longreads.com/2017/01/20/in-1971-the-people-didnt-just-march-on-washington-they-shut-it-down/ 5 comments politics
- Question: Good non-English news sources (especially "long-reads") http://longreads.com/ 10 comments europe
- The best long-form stories on the web, featured daily http://longreads.com/ 4 comments indepthstories
Linking pages
- To Heil, or Not To Heil, When Traveling in the Third Reich https://longreads.com/2018/10/10/to-heil-or-not-to-heil-when-traveling-in-the-third-reich/ 100 comments
- The Masterless People: Pirates, Maroons, and the Struggle to Live Free https://longreads.com/2018/10/30/the-masterless-people-pirates-maroons-and-the-struggle-to-live-free/ 80 comments
- The Artificial Intelligence of the Public Intellectual https://longreads.com/2019/05/31/the-artificial-intelligence-of-the-public-intellectual/ 45 comments
- A Three-Day Expedition To Walk Across Paris Entirely Underground https://longreads.com/2019/03/13/a-three-day-expedition-to-walk-across-paris-entirely-underground/ 25 comments
- If the Rich Really Want To ‘Do Good,’ They Should Become Class Traitors Like FDR https://longreads.com/2018/10/18/review-of-winners-take-all/ 25 comments
- The Brady Rule: How a Botched Robbery Led to a Legal Landmark | The Marshall Project https://www.themarshallproject.org/2018/06/24/an-odd-almost-senseless-series-of-events?ref=hp-1-111 25 comments
- Deeper Than Pixels: A Reading List on Video Games https://longreads.com/2021/10/07/deeper-than-pixels-a-reading-list-on-video-games/ 23 comments
- The Immigration-Obsessed, Polarized, Garbage-Fire Election of 1800 https://longreads.com/2017/03/28/the-immigration-obsessed-polarized-garbage-fire-election-of-1800/ 22 comments
- On Not Being Able to Read https://longreads.com/2018/08/14/on-not-being-able-to-read/ 20 comments
- Insomnia: To Pursue Sleep So Hard You Become Invigorated By the Chase https://longreads.com/2018/11/15/insomnia-to-pursue-sleep-so-hard-you-become-invigorated-by-the-chase/ 17 comments
- The Last Resort https://longreads.com/2018/03/22/the-last-resort/ 16 comments
- Old In Art School https://longreads.com/2018/06/19/old-in-art-school/ 14 comments
- A Conversation With Dan Ariely About What Shapes our Motivations https://blog.longreads.com/2016/11/17/a-conversation-with-dan-ariely-on-what-shapes-our-motivations/ 10 comments
- The Sense of an Endling https://longreads.com/2017/03/24/the-sense-of-an-endling/ 10 comments
- 100 Websites You Should Know and Use (updated!) | TED Blog http://blog.ted.com/2007/08/03/100_websites_yo/ 8 comments
- Queens of Infamy: Isabella of France - Longreads https://longreads.com/2022/06/21/queens-of-infamy-isabella-of-france/ 5 comments
- Welcome to the Center of the Universe https://longreads.com/2018/03/15/welcome-to-the-center-of-the-universe/ 4 comments
- Miami-Dade County’s Homeless Sex Offender Problem | The Marshall Project https://www.themarshallproject.org/2018/10/03/banished 4 comments
- Kidnapping a Nazi General: Patrick Leigh Fermor’s Perfect Heist http://blog.longreads.com/2016/01/07/kidnapping-a-nazi-general-patrick-leigh-fermors-perfect-heist/ 3 comments
- Well-Aimed and Powerful http://blog.longreads.com/2015/07/07/well-aimed-and-powerful/ 3 comments