Very nice shout-out for The Fence from author of the moment, Patrick Radden Keefe.

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The Mansion, the Heiress, the Jewel Heist, and Me: A Bel-Air Fairytale Sixty-five years ago, my grandfather masterminded a robbery at a historic Los Angeles estate. Decades later, Carla Kirkeby—who lived in that house and discovered the theft of her parents’ jewels as a…

"Most of the jewels were recovered in May 1962, after George led an LA Police detective to my great-grandmother Martha’s house." —Jennifer Cannon for @vanityfair.com

In the latest edition of our Top 5:

• A father's grief (@climbingmagazine.bsky.social)
• A commuter's concern (@macleans.bsky.social)
• A decision's consequences (@theguardian.com)
• A teen's hobby (@nytimes.com)
• A sports fan's hidden haven (The Ringer)

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Finding the Cattle Queen | Rachel Ossip Today, the poster is rarely, if ever, remembered for its relationship to the Cattle Baron, despite the name printed prominently in the bottom right corner. Instead, in museums and academic papers,…

"Some internet searching has dredged up at least two tattooed variations—one a faithful replica, the other a satirical sendup with the woman’s ass cheeks labeled 'hot pastrami.'" —Rachel Ossip seeks out the "Cattle Queen" for Cake Zine & @nplusonemag.com

The Memory Maker - Longreads OpenAI's Sora allowed you to deepfake yourself. Users started to remember things that never happened.

”He created an AI-generated video of himself scaling Mount Rushmore and watched it several times. Then, a few weeks later, he was getting his dog ready for a walk. He felt a flicker of recollection, of that time he’d climbed Mount Rushmore.”

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Bright, Built World | Los Angeles Review of Books A reflection on how the poets Richard Siken and Anne Carson responded to losing their language.

"'A doorknob is a rock for the hand. It opens a hole in the wall,' Siken writes, and I can feel the rock in my hand. There is no metaphor here, only a search for the meaning that comes before metaphor." — @reluctantlyjoe.bsky.social for @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social

The Memory Maker - Longreads OpenAI's Sora allowed you to deepfake yourself. Users started to remember things that never happened.

OpenAI might have sunsetted Sora, but the false memories it helped users create will remain. Today at Longreads, Tim Requarth digs into the neuroscience of how false memories get made.

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Longform journalism is my favorite reading, and I haven’t been this stuck on a narrative nonfiction writer since Erik Larson. Great questionnaire!

The Longreads Questionnaire, Featuring Patrick Radden Keefe - Longreads The New Yorker staff writer and author of the new book London Falling on running, writing in the morning, a life-changing childhood trip, and more.

"Ideas and turns of phrase shake loose on a long run. It’s thrilling."

In this week's Longreads Questionnaire, @newyorker.com staff writer and LONDON FALLING author @praddenkeefe.bsky.social shares what he's reading, where he does his best thinking, and more.

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A New Jersey Teen Finds Treasure, and More, in Abandoned Storage Units

"But the business of dealing in people’s abandoned possessions, it turns out, can be fraught. Two years into his pursuit, he knows all too well that every locker tells a story, many of them bleak." —Alex Vadukul for @nytimes.com

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The Age of Dinosaurs - Longreads "Ruminating on extinction, under the slanted tutelage of my child, felt like a responsible thing to do."

"In devoting my attention to the distant past, I planned to finally deepen my understanding of this planet I took for granted." Read Elena Megalos's "The Age of Dinosaurs," a new Longreads visual essay longreads.com/2026/03/31/a...

Limiting Not Just Screen Time, But Screen Space | NOEMA The internet has stopped being a place we visit — it’s now an environment we inhabit.

"I expected connectivity like I expected air."

Laura J. Martin for @noemamag.com: www.noemamag.com/limiting-not...

Searching for Mexico’s Disappeared: Uncovering the Clandestine Killings of the Zetas in Veracruz For thirteen years, Araceli Salcedo Jiménez has led soldiers, forensic teams, and fellow mothers into the mountains of Veracruz to dig up the clandestine graves of Mexico's disappeared. She is still…

"You could only expect this to be horrendous, but then you’d still be caught off guard precisely when the horror strikes from an angle you never expected." —John Gibler for @nowvoyagermagazine.bsky.social

The Death of a Superman - Believer Magazine The last night of Superman’s life came on a balmy Friday in Los Angeles, California. It should have been just like any other night for Christopher Dennis. Blue-eyed, standing six foot five, and…

"Not only do both find cases, they find more cases, fatalities I hadn’t heard of and that were not reported by the media. How many more have escaped notice?" — @PaulCollins.bsky.social for @thebeliever.net

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The Longreads Questionnaire, Featuring R. O. Kwon - Longreads The author of The Incendiaries and Exhibit on the bed as refuge, the power of movement and exercise, a life of writing, and more.

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What happens when you don't die on time? Hélène Campbell was supposed to be long dead by now. She emptied her bucket list, bank account — and at 34, is left to wonder: “What next?”

"This past November, about six months after his prognosis estimate had come and gone, Staubi learned that his cancer had gone into remission. That’s when he got angry."

Bruce Deachman for @nationalpost.bsky.social:

This generation was pummelled by Covid high school. Now the job market wants to replace them with AI - Toronto Life Kennedy Lashley was pummelled by pandemic high school. Then she faced an emaciated post-secondary system. Now she’s trying to find work in a market...

"My cohort started referring to ourselves as the forgotten year. As we progressed, the program was vanishing behind us."

Kennedy Lashley, as told to Jes Mason, at @torontolifemag.bsky.social: torontolife.com/deep-dives/t...

The Top 5 Longreads of the Week - Longreads Highlighting excellent stories by Charles Bethea, Mahmoud Mushtaha, Geoffrey Gray, Luke Ottenhof, and Matthew Shaer.

In this week's Top 5:

· Chasing manhood @newyorker.com
· Naming the dead @wired.com
· Searching the stacks @altajournal.bsky.social
· Leaving music @hazlitt.bsky.social
· Opting out @nytimes.com

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Why Some Young People Are Ditching Their Smartphones for Dumbphones, Flip Phones What happens when a growing cohort of young people decide to ditch their devices?

"No matter how much time he spent on r/dumbphones, no matter how many social media apps he deleted, his phone always ended up back in his hands." —@matthewshaer.bsky.social for @nytimes.com

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The Good Catholics of Buffalo - Longreads With thousands of US soldiers dying in Vietnam, a righteous group of young New Yorkers embarked on a secret mission to bring the war machine to its knees.

"He and other peace activists came to view the contents of draft boards’ filing cabinets as no different from bombs or bullets: They were just tools that helped the government kill."

Read an excerpt of the new @atavist.com story, by Stephen Wood: longreads.com/2026/04/02/c...

The Camps Promising to Turn You—or Your Son—Into an Alpha Male At the Men of War Crucible, you bear-crawl through rivers. At Warrior Week, you dig your own grave. At the Squire Program, your teen-ager can take part, too.

"I watched a small son get pummelled. 'That was fun,' he said flatly when it was over. Heading back to the gym, one notably silent son told me that his father had made him come." — @CharlesBethea.bsky.social for @newyorker.com www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Opposing ICE Might Save the Country. It Could Also Ruin Your Life For months, lone vibe coder Rafael Concepcion has obsessively built tools to counter the federal immigration crackdown—pivoting as he’s been outmatched. He’s also lost his job and become a target.

"He found himself sucked into what he terms 'the algorithmic rage loop.' And he was questioning how work like his could avoid playing into that dismal phenomenon." — @brendankoerner.bsky.social for @wired.com

The Longreads Questionnaire, Featuring R. O. Kwon - Longreads The author of The Incendiaries and Exhibit on the bed as refuge, the power of movement and exercise, a life of writing, and more.

In this week's Longreads Questionnaire, best-selling author @rokwon.bsky.social shares what she's reading these days, the word she overused in her first novel, and more.

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The Hunt for California’s Rarest Novel Collectors have been tracking an 1854 outlaw tale from gold rush San Francisco to the alleys of Mexico City—and beyond. We join the hunt.

"I come home that night empty-handed. No Yellow Bird. Not in the national libraries or in the cracked bookstores on Donceles or in the vaults of Morton Subastas."

Geoffrey Gray for @altajournal.bsky.social: www.altaonline.com/books/a70453...

Gillian Welch: This Land Is Her Land — THE BITTER SOUTHERNER

"But young Gillian [Welch] cultivated another skill with great usefulness in the entertainment business: She started deflecting attention from herself with elaborate storytelling."

—Jewly Hight for @bittersouth.bsky.social

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They Would Not Dream of Flowers: Translating Through the Tehran Blackout - Public Books As the entire country was plunged into a digital blackout, the only light remaining in my room was the cold, clinical glow of my disconnected laptop. There, in that forced isolation, I sat translating...

"There, in that forced isolation, I sat translating a story about death. Meanwhile, the real thing operated just outside my window." —Miadd Banki for @publicbooks.bsky.social

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Reasonable Doubt at 30: Revisiting Jay-Z’s Hustler Masterpiece in His Billionaire Era Writer Hanif Abdurraqib on the bygone world of Jay-Z’s debut album.

“We are at what feels like a(nother) moment when everyone is a hustler, or fancies themselves a hustler, but no one is especially good at it, and I come from a time and place where it was a requirement to be good.” Hanif Abdurraqib for @gqmagazine.bsky.social #longreads www.gq.com/story/jay-z-...

"Cryopreservation doesn’t just preserve genetic lineages – it transforms extinction from a permanent loss into a temporary inconvenience we can choose to address later."

Sadiah Qureshi for @aeon.co: aeon.co/essays/de-ex...

The Age of Dinosaurs - Longreads "Ruminating on extinction, under the slanted tutelage of my child, felt like a responsible thing to do."

"Ruminating on extinction, under the slanted tutelage of my child, felt like a responsible thing to do." Read Elena Megalos's new visual essay for @longreads.com on parenting, time, and missing your "peak dinosaur window." longreads.com/2026/03/31/a...