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  Jasper Craven once spent half a year undercover at a private security job. He is stridently critical, deeply compassionate, and truly funny. Find out for yourself via his Longreads Questionnaire https://longreads.com/2026/10/20/jasper-craven-questionnaire/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social #interviews #longreads #masculinity #military #journalism

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  "The social contract is different for them. They’re not going to do what they’re told. That is the beautiful thing about a teenager, and it’s one of the reasons that they may not excel at paid work." Sylvie McNamara for Washingtonian https://washingtonian.com/2026/10/19/sixth-worst-mcdonalds-usa-america-stafford-virginia/ #mcdonalds #fastfood #longreads

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  "Forty-thousand bodies' worth of bones. Probably more. My brain buckled at the magnitude." Kristin Idaszak on visiting the Sedlec Ossuary in her 20s, when death was just an idea, and on returning years later, after her body made it real: https://longreads.com/2026/10/22/ossuary-charnel-house-heart-illness-death/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social #Longreads #Death #Ossuary #Tourism #Travel #Heart #Illness #History

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  "Belfi told me that other players had warned him that he would see little of his first bonus installment. He left the bank with nothing." Gus Garcia-Roberts for ProPublica https://www.propublica.org/article/how-dominican-republic-baseball-factory-traps-players-mlb-santo-caraballo #baseball #dominicanrepublic #majorleaguebaseball #mlb #investigation #longreads

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  In this week's Longreads Top 5: —Bottling our brains (Equator) —Decades of doubt (Texas Monthly) —Cost of careers (ProPublica) —Meals in Mexico (Orion) —Frustration of fish (bioGraphic) https://longreads.com/2026/10/23/the-top-5-longreads-of-the-week-630/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social #longreads #top5 #essays #reading #writing

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  Why do we visit places of death? Kristin Idaszak reflects on sites like Auschwitz, the Paris catacombs, and a crowded bone chapel in the Czech Republic—and on what she calls the "Disneyfication of death." https://longreads.com/2026/10/22/ossuary-charnel-house-heart-illness-death/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social #Longreads #Death #Essay #Heart #Illness #Mortality #History #Tourism

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  "When we build, when we think, when we act, we do so in honor of every object, thought, and action which has preceded this one, and we are changed by the process." James Bridle for Emergence Magazine: https://emergencemagazine.org/essay/benchmarking/ #Design #Building #AI #Intelligence #Technology #Carpentry

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  "A biography on Wikipedia might not be intended as a prize, but nobody knows its value like the people who’ve had one and then lost it." Duncan Fyfe for WIRED: https://www.wired.com/story/the-tragedy-of-losing-your-wikipedia-page/ #Longreads #Internet #Web #Wikipedia #History #Culture

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  To mark our 2026 Member Drive, we're launching "Passages," a new series in which writers we love explore their own lives as readers. Our first essay is from Maggie Shipstead, an accomplished travel writer and author of "Great Circle." https://longreads.com/2026/10/27/maggie-shipstead-passages-reading/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social #reading #literacy #writing #creativity #authors #Longreads

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  "I'm directing and co-piloting my dad, and it occurs to me that this—right now—is probably the most we've talked in decades: Turn left, turn right, merge onto this state road." A new essay from Aube Rey Lescure: https://longreads.com/2026/10/29/family-road-trip-china-north-korea/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social #Longreads #Essay #China #NorthKorea #RoadTrip #Family #Fathers #Travel

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  "In 100 years, there will be nothing. Nobody will want to spend their vacation touring endless rooms full of rusty server racks." Jesse Wright for Current Affairs: https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/traveling-route-66-in-the-age-of-data-centers #Longreads #RoadTrip #Travel #Tourism #Route66 #American #History #DataCenters #AI

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  "One woman swore Alexander showed up outside a memorial service and asked people for IDs. Another woman said he detained her and her husband when they returned home from church. Parties dwindled. Invite lists shrank. People began to move away." Francesca D'Annunzio and McKenzie Funk for ProPublica https://www.propublica.org/article/deportations-ingram-texas-287g-jaron-alexander #investigation #journalism #ICE #immigration #america #longreads

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  🧵 We're launching "Passages," a new, members-only series of essays about life-changing encounters with stories, each by one of our favorite writers. If you're a Longreads fan, we think you'll love this. #reading #writing #journalism #creativity #longreads #books #stories

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  "Lucy, Jane, and Jordana work in very different corners of the deathcare world, but each describes the same impulse: to bring care where they found neglect." Andie Eisen for Los Angeles Review of Books: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/death-industry-mortuary-programs-women-andie-eisen-quarterly #Longreads #Death #DeathCare #Funerals #EndOfLife #Mortician

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  In this week's Longreads Top 5: —Buffalo brain, anyone? (The New York Times Magazine) —Singing injustice (Harper's Magazine) —Wikipedia judges (Wired) —Dangerous dates (Offrange) —Hugs with slaps (The Offing) https://longreads.com/2026/10/30/the-top-5-longreads-of-the-week-631/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social #longreads #top5 #essays #reading #writing

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  "North Carolinians like to claim Lydia’s story as their own, but the tale of the vanishing hitchhiker is widespread." Revisit one of our favorite 👻 essays, by Elizabeth Friend, on ghost stories passed down across generations: https://longreads.com/2024/10/29/lydia-ghost-story-folklore-north-carolina/ #Longreads #Ghosts #NorthCarolina #Legends #Folklore #Myth

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  "Conversations with people like Christina left me questioning whether this format of raving is really just a new beacon of wellness culture." Kiana Mickles for Pitchfork: https://pitchfork.com/story/the-rise-of-the-corporate-rave #Longreads #Rave #Techno #ElectronicMusic #Wellness #Subculture

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  "It has sparked an ongoing hunt among the FBI, banking institutions, a true-crime podcaster, and television producers to see who can unravel McDonnell’s tangled history." Cheyenne Roundtree for Rolling Stone https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/true-crime-fake-heiress-fbi-most-wanted-1235589737/ #investigation #truecrime #mostwanted #tv #podcasting #longreads

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  "The public commons is a place people stop at on their way somewhere else. Everyone eats the same value meal because there’s nothing else to eat." An excerpt from Gabe Bullard’s new book, AGAINST CONVENIENCE: https://longreads.com/2026/09/15/convenience-friction-eating-alone/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social #Longreads #Books #Reading #Technology #Culture

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  “Modern food delivery promises to make any food into something you can eat at home. But not every dish, and not every restaurant, is built for this.” An excerpt from Gabe Bullard’s new book, AGAINST CONVENIENCE, out now from Hanover Square Press: https://longreads.com/2026/09/15/convenience-friction-eating-alone/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social #Longreads #Reading #Books #Technology #Apps #Convenience #Food

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  Our Top 5: ㆍTriplets, unclaimed (New York) ㆍDeath, unreported (Science/Retraction Watch) ㆍDe-extinction, disputed (MIT Technology Review) ㆍChildren, ferried (Fernando Pinho) ㆍButterflies, tracked (The Atlantic) https://longreads.com/2026/08/14/top-5-621/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_content=t5-2026-08-14 #Longreads #Reading #Journalism #Nonfiction #Science #Medicine #Technology

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  "Do we lose something when we no longer get lost?" Shayla Love for The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/news/annals-of-inquiry/gps-and-the-lost-art-of-getting-lost #Longreads #Books #GPS #Navigation #Maps #Directions #Satellite

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  "If you’re doing something complicated, you have to think about how the reader is taking it in. Is this clear to the reader? Is the reader going to want to read the next paragraph? Where is the momentum?" —Rachel Hartigan in conversation with Brendan O'Meara for the Creative Nonfiction Podcast https://longreads.com/2026/08/18/bucking-expectations-rachel-hartigan/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social #craft #journalism #writing #reporting

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  “Should we steal all these Red Bulls? Just take the whole thing?” —Sam Rockwell to Kevin Dupzyk for Esquire https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/movies/a73335120/sam-rockwell-interview-2026/?src=longreads

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  In our new Longreads Questionnaire, Ravenous founder-owner Jaya Saxena tells us where she had the best kebab of her life, the longread on Algerian hazelnut spread that she can't stop thinking about, and the Eater story she's most proud of. https://longreads.com/2026/08/20/questionnaire-jaya-saxena/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social #Longreads #Food #FoodWriting #Writers #Journalists #Interviews

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  "He heard cars coming up behind him. FBI agents stormed him, guns drawn; he counted around 20. 'What the fuck is this about?' he said. 'You’re here for sports cards?'" —David Kushner for Business Insider https://www.businessinsider.com/anthony-curcio-trading-fraud-scandal-psa-2026-8?src=longreads

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  This week's Top 5: * Punishing dissent (Mother Jones) * Embracing uncertainty (New Yorker) * Getting scammed (Toronto Life) * Saving cattle (Harper's Magazine) * Screening The Odyssey @vulture https://longreads.com/2026/08/21/top-5-622/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

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  "Somehow, we’ve made the industrial equivalent of a Fabergé egg the linchpin of our civilization. What would happen if someone started breaking them?" Christopher Cox for The New York Times Magazine https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/18/magazine/national-blackout-power-electricity-outage.html?src=longreads #power #electricity #transformers #reporting #longreads

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  "Dad got his gun from the City of Cleveland. That’s where Mom got hers, too. Both are tools of policing, the Cooper family business." In our excerpt from THE BLACK SHIELD, Wilbert L. Cooper recounts how his mother Gayle joined the police force: https://longreads.com/2026/08/25/the-black-shield-wilbert-l-cooper/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social #Longreads #Reading #Books #Cleveland #Police #Memoir #Policing

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  "Here in DC, I’m seeing evidence that though being a wayward, boundary-less maverick might sound good in theory, it often doesn’t work out well in real life." Jon Ronson for GQ https://www.gq.com/story/ufc-at-the-white-house?src=longreads #ufc #fighting #fights #mma #reporting #longreads