longreads, 1 month ago to ethelcain

In this week's #LongreadsTop5:

-Displacing the #Maasai (The Atlantic)
-The death of an #Alabama #pastor (Esquire)
-Alaska's little brown #bats (Hakai Magazine)
-A dispatch from an #AI conference (n+1)
-Remembering #ShaunOfTheDead (British GQ)

Read why our editors picked these stories: https://longreads.com/2024/04/12/the-top-5-longreads-of-the-week-511/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

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longreads, 3 months ago to LongReads

We've chosen some great reading for you this week, including:

—A suspicious death in London, England.
—How AI could unlock the secrets on ancient scrolls.
—The struggle to convey a massive glacier’s beauty.
—How plants experience time.
—The hot mess behind the sriracha shortage.

Check out our Weekly Top 5!

https://longreads.com/2024/02/09/the-top-5-longreads-of-the-week-502/

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longreads, 5 months ago to LongReads

In this week’s #LongreadsTop5, we recommend stories about the US immigration crisis at sea; the world of romance fraud; former R.E.M. frontman Michael Stipe; Wikipedia and knowledge; and restaurants in the South that serve gas.

https://longreads.com/2023/12/15/the-top-5-longreads-of-the-week-495?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=t5-2023-12-15

#Longreads #Journalism #Storytelling #Essay

longreads, 6 months ago to LongReads

Looking for some weekend reads? In today's #LongreadsTop5:

• Gaza diaries
• Turtle hunters
• The messiness of death
• A lighthouse keeper
• A legendary basketball coach

Head over to @longreads for our editors' recommendations: https://longreads.com/2023/11/10/the-top-5-longreads-of-the-week-491/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_content=t5-2023-11-10

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longreads, 8 months ago to random

Welcome to the weekend! Here's this week's #LongreadsTop5:

-An essay on childhood, trauma, and finding one's voice through words
-A story about a safe-drug-use hotline operator
-A look into harnessing AI to talk to whales
-A piece on Louisiana and Lucinda Williams
-A story on sumo wrestling in NYC

Read on to learn why we picked these stories: https://longreads.com/2023/09/15/the-top-5-longreads-of-the-week-483/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_content=t5-2023-09-15

longreads, 9 months ago to LongReads

• The incalculable human cost of institutionalization.
• An homage to rappers gone far too soon.
• A profile on the trans son of an anti-trans zealot.
• A summer camp that helps children to process grief, and bearing witness to the survivors of the 2020 explosion at the Port of Beirut.

All this and the piece our audience loved most this week's Top 5.

https://longreads.com/2023/08/11/top-5-longreads-of-the-week-478/

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longreads, 10 months ago to LongReads

Digging into the moral and environmental hazards of a battery-powered future. Reckoning with a family secret. Celebrating Diné cultural traditions. A deeply personal search in Pennsylvania, and Barbie’s complicated relationship with feminism.

Check out this week's Top 5 and find out which story our audience loved most this week.

https://longreads.com/2023/07/14/top-5-longreads-of-the-week-474/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

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