#LongreadsTop5

The Top 5 Longreads of the Week - Longreads Featuring stories by John Woodrow Cox, Justin Sayles, Aryn Baker, Moran Barkai and Paul Tullis, and Russell Cobb and Sarah Brandvold.

In this week's #LongreadsTop5 ⬇️
• The American Dream, dashed (@washingtonpost.com)
• Remembering D’Angelo (@the-ringer.bsky.social)
• DIY DNA (@noemamag.com)
• What media bias really looks like (@motherjones.com)
• Mummy dearest (Edify)

longreads.com/2025/10/17/l...

The Top 5 Longreads of the Week - Longreads This week, we feature stories from Gordy Megroz, Max Blau and Zaydee Sanchez, Brendan I. Koerner, Lora Eli Smith, and Pat Cassels.

In this week's #LongreadsTop5 ⬇️
• Purple mountains’ math-esty (National Geographic)
• A labor trafficking nightmare (@propublica.org)
• Fanning the flames (@wired.com)
• After the flood . . . goblins? (@oxfordamerican.bsky.social)
• Some like *really* hot (@slate.com)

longreads.com/2025/09/19/l...

The Top 5 Longreads of the Week - Longreads Recommending stories from Ivy Knight; David Enrich, Matthew Goldstein, and Jessica Silver-Greenberg; Eva Holland, John DeVore; and Nathaniel Rich.

In this week's #LongreadsTop5 ⬇️
• A Banksy restoration (@oxfordamerican.bsky.social)
• A bank investigation (@nytimes.com)
• Alaskan importation (@highcountrynews.org)
• A soupy dissertation (Taste)
• A bayou pest vexation (@harpers.bsky.social)

longreads.com/2025/09/12/l...

The Top 5 Longreads of the Week - Longreads Recommending stories from Alyssa Roenigk, Rachel Monroe, Brad Rassler, Will Bahr, and Zachary B. Hancock.

In this week's #LongreadsTop5 ⬇️
• High school after losing everything (@espn.com)
• Gaming the system (@newyorker.com)
• On the trail of a lost Beat poet (@altajournal.bsky.social)
• Our bodies, our science labs (@wired.com)
• Another version of evolution (@nautil.us)

longreads.com/2025/06/27/l...

The Top 5 Longreads of the Week - Longreads Recommending stories from Archie Bland, Elizabeth Bruenig, Anat Rubin, Dexter Thomas, and Elena Gosalvez Blanco.

In this week's #LongreadsTop5 ⬇️
• A father, a son, a tragedy (@theguardian.com‬)
• The cost of capital punishment (‪@theatlantic.com‬)
• Criminal justice, unjustly (@calmatters.org)
• Gaming without sight (@wired.com)
• An unvarnished icon (‪@yalereview.bsky.social‬)

longreads.com/2025/06/13/l...

The Top 5 Longreads of the Week - Longreads Recommendations from Bobbie Johnson; Bee Wilson; Jia Tolentino; Isra Fejzullaj, Rina Chandran, and Michael Zelenko; and Matthew Ponsford.

In this week’s #LongreadsTop5:

-The audacious hackers of North Korea
-The immense value of a cake tin
-The veil across a disconnected mind
-The demise of Skype
-The importance of a (very) old tree

longreads.com/2025/05/09/t...

The Top 5 Longreads of the Week - Longreads Recommending stories from Mariana Serapicos, Camille Bromley, Devon Fredericksen, Georgia Brown, and Sarah Golibart Gorman.

In this week's #LongreadsTop5 ⬇️
• Life’s joy, remembered
• Separating truth from spin
• A whale of a dilemma
• Unexpected Twists
• The taste of your roots

longreads.com/2025/05/02/l...

The Top 5 Longreads of the Week - Longreads Recommending stories by Brenna Ehrlich, Yiyun Li, Claire L. Evans, Nicholas Casey, and Kent Russell.

In this week's #LongreadsTop5 ⬇️
• Redemption on Death Row
• The limits of love
• Biology’s 21st-century Tamagotchi
• Burying the monsters
• Knights in red satin

longreads.com/2025/04/04/t...

The Top 5 Longreads of the Week - Longreads Recommending notable stories by Kelley Engelbrecht, Sam Anderson, Lindsey Liles, Jeannette Cooperman, and Claire McNear.

In this week's #LongreadsTop5 ⬇️
• Artists vs. robots
• The path of an urban legend
• The fight to save the red wolf
• Living—and dying—with intention
• A Jeopardy! tale for the ages

longreads.com/2025/03/14/t...

The Top 5 Longreads of the Week - Longreads Featuring stories from Charlotte Bailey, Hanif Abdurraqib, Taylar Dawn Stagnar, Patrick Madden, and Kevin Chroust.

In this week's #LongreadsTop5 ⬇️
• The hidden ubiquity of asbestos
• Parable of the Sower’s online resurgence
• Indigenous pride in the mosh pit
• Thirteen ways of listening to a zorza
• A Japanese sword’s historical reunion

longreads.com/2025/02/07/l...

The Top 5 Longreads of the Week - Longreads Featuring stories from Michelle Shephard, Adrienne Mason, Dylan Levi King, Sara Mitchell, and Saskia Solomon.

In this week's #LongreadsTop5 ⬇️
• Truth and redemption, for two
• A last masterpiece about first responders
• The waning of a megacity
• To crash, to crumple, to survive
• Researching the unresearchable

longreads.com/2025/01/10/l...

The Top 5 Longreads of the Week - Longreads Featuring stories from Ed Park, Rachel Kushner, Will Tavlin, Michaela Cavanagh, and S.C. Gwynne.

In this week's #LongreadsTop5 ⬇️
• Visiting your past self
• The need for speed
• Netflix’s race to mediocrity
• Awaiting the apocalypse
• The Cybertruck’s (shudder) appeal

longreads.com/2024/12/20/l...