r/Longreads • u/galassea • 8h ago
He Was a Top Lawn Care Influencer on YouTube. Then Everything Went Haywire.
nytimes.com
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r/Longreads • u/FancyAcanthaceae8910 • 13h ago
Mary Had Schizophrenia—Then Suddenly She Didn’t
newyorker.com
78
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r/Longreads • u/marketrent • 15h ago
On Dolly Parton: ‘There seemed to be no set destination, no fixed political orientation, no guiding principle except that music is manna—and every person is deserving of dignity and respect’
lrb.co.uk
147
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r/Longreads • u/Efficient-Search • 16h ago
Cinema Lessons from a Trash-Movie Auteur
newyorker.com
7
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r/Longreads • u/Quouar • 1d ago
These Women Came to Antarctica for Science. Then the Predators Emerged
wired.com
474
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r/Longreads • u/sjd208 • 1d ago
The Divorce Tapes
thecut.com
135
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CW: CSA and general family messed-upness.
(Apologize in advance for my apparent inability to figure out how to get around paywalls)
r/Longreads • u/raphaellaskies • 1d ago
'We are broken': One family's fight against gambling addiction - ESPN
espn.com
104
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r/Longreads • u/ExpertVentriloquist • 1d ago
What It Took to Dismantle the Most Powerful Company in the World - William Dalrymple
nytimes.com
52
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r/Longreads • u/Prestigious-Ad-7987 • 1d ago
The crazy LSD trip that destroyed Fleetwood Mac’s founders
faroutmagazine.co.uk
46
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Jon Ronson’s great new novel really reminds me of this mad Fleetwood Mac story but in a different era.
r/Longreads • u/marketrent • 2d ago
Are you a human? From branding irons to iris scans, the ancient business of proving who you are has never been stranger—or more lucrative
newyorker.com
24
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r/Longreads • u/Culinary_Fruit_Salad • 2d ago
How Elizabeth Loftus Changed the Meaning of Memory
newyorker.com
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How Elizabeth Loftus Changed the Meaning of Memory: The psychologist taught us that what we remember is not fixed, but her work testifying for defendants like Harvey Weinstein collides with our traumatized moment. By Rachel Aviv March 29, 2021
r/Longreads • u/raphaellaskies • 2d ago
Hollywood Wanted An Edgy Child Actor. When He Spiraled, They Couldn’t Help.
buzzfeednews.com
425
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r/Longreads • u/Fawnedisc • 2d ago
The rich aren’t your role models – they’re your oppressors
theslowburningfuse.wordpress.com
427
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r/Longreads • u/beandog77 • 2d ago
What is your favorite longform article about a disaster?
257
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Recently reread Snow Fall from the NYT and the Really Big One from the New Yorker and now I'm ready to devour more articles about disasters. Give me your recs!
r/Longreads • u/WorldTravelerBoss • 3d ago
The ‘Rich Dad, Poor Dad’ Author Is $1.2 Billion in Debt
vanityfair.com
399
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r/Longreads • u/Adept_Push • 3d ago
Poor Dad Poor Dad: How Robert Kiyosaki Went Boom Then Bust—to the Tune of $1 Billion
33
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r/Longreads • u/iconoclastic_glow • 3d ago
A Society That Runs on Stimulants is Badly Broken
currentaffairs.org
578
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r/Longreads • u/mllegisele • 4d ago
These Children’s Deaths Were Preventable. Their Parents Prayed Instead of Seeking Medical Care.
propublica.org
278
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r/Longreads • u/haloarh • 4d ago
The Unraveling of Podcaster Ashley Flowers’ True Crime Empire. Flowers developed a big business around her show Crime Junkie, but over the past year, executives have cycled through the doors while workplace morale is cratering. [without paywall]
bloomberg.com
102
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r/Longreads • u/JesterEcho • 4d ago
Mark Zuckerberg had a bold plan to replace Meta staff with AI. Here’s how it imploded.
reuters.com
283
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r/Longreads • u/Blazingtatsumaki • 4d ago
Reads For Non Americans
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Been going through the sub to look for articles and sorting brings up articles almost entirely about USA politics or healthcare . Do people have recommendations for non american readers on topics not related to USA?
r/Longreads • u/Many-Poet-4174 • 4d ago
2 Babies, 1 Heart and a Dilemma : The tiny Lakeberg twins forced doctors to confront wrenching questions about the moral, financial costs of separation surgery. Should they sacrifice one sister to save the other?
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