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Longform Reading Weekly Pick

Longform Reading Weekly Pick

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5 longform essays of the week from New Yorker / Atlantic / NYT Magazine.

Longform Reading Weekly Pick
Longform Reading Weekly Pick
2026-11-02

Five Long Reads Worth Your Week: A Clinic on Trial in the Alps, a Ski Descent of Everest, and a Novel Accused of Being Written by AI

Five long reads published October 26 – November 1, 2026: a Swiss alternative-medicine clinic charged over two patient deaths, a first ski descent of Everest's Hornbein Couloir, an American ambassador in Paris, the market for 'best babies', and the French novel accused of being written by AI.

Longform Reading Weekly Pick
Longform Reading Weekly Pick
2026-10-26

Five Long Reads Worth Your Week: The Book Business Is Booming, the Chip the World Runs On, and a Friendship Traded for a Scoop

Five long reads published October 19–25, 2026: the bookselling boom behind the reading panic, the chip supply chain that decides what the AI economy can do, Bob Woodward on the friend he spent for a scoop, Lebanon's disappeared Jews as an item in a negotiation, and the week Oxford Street loses its cars.

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Longform Reading Weekly Pick
Longform Reading Weekly Pick
2026-10-19

Five Long Reads Worth Your Week: Learning War in a Border Hotel, a Director's Factory Strike, and the Fish That Feeds the World's Farms

Five long reads published October 12–18, 2026: a reporter's apprenticeship in a border hotel, Lee Chang-dong's first film in eight years, the anchoveta collapse behind the world's fish farms, Arkansas's vanished work permits, and the specialists who talk juries out of the death penalty.

Longform Reading Weekly Pick
Longform Reading Weekly Pick
2026-10-12

Five Long Reads Worth Your Week: A Woman with a Past, Gandhi's Last Walk, and the Bombs Still Buried Under Britain

Five newly published long reads from the week of October 5–11, 2026: a writer's portrait of the cousin who hid her past, Gandhi's last campaign against Partition, the fight inside the Heritage Foundation, the unexploded bombs still under Britain, and the Ukrainian filmmaker Stalin protected.

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Longform Reading Weekly Pick
Longform Reading Weekly Pick
2026-10-05

Five Long Reads Worth Your Week: A Highway Nobody Will Fix, the Sheikh Buying Up AI, and Tang China Through a Daughter's Eyes

Five newly published long reads on the Colorado mountain highway the state will not make safe, the Emirati royal buying up the infrastructure of artificial intelligence, Judith Shklar's case for a liberalism built on fear, the Tang dynasty seen through a mother-daughter journey, and a father's years coaching his sons in hockey.

Longform Reading Weekly Pick
Longform Reading Weekly Pick
2026-09-28

Five Long Reads Worth Your Week: Charlie Kirk's Campus Fallout, Kingsolver on Who Art Is For, and How North Korea Won

Five newly published long reads on the campus punishments that followed Charlie Kirk's murder, Barbara Kingsolver's case for socially engaged fiction, a friend's years hosting a drug gang's trap house, how North Korea's nuclear bet paid off, and what OpenAI's claimed solution of the Navier–Stokes equations settles.

Longform Reading Weekly Pick
Longform Reading Weekly Pick
2026-09-21

Five Long Reads Worth Your Week: A Godwit's Ten-Thousand-Mile Flight, a Dressage Shooting, and Jefferson's Genome

Five newly published long reads on a shorebird's record migration, a dressage trainer acquitted of shooting his student, the genetics that settled Jefferson's paternity, the pace of children's television, and the lawyer whose methods Donald Trump inherited.

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Longform Reading Weekly Pick
Longform Reading Weekly Pick
2026-09-14

Five Long Reads Worth Your Week: Homeownership, Fukuyama's Regrets, the Secret Battle for the BBC, and the Uses of Criticism

Five newly published long reads on housing inequality, Fukuyama’s restless democracy, the secret battle over the BBC’s charter, 9/11 health accountability, and the point of literary criticism.

Longform Reading Weekly Pick
Longform Reading Weekly Pick
2026-09-07

Five Long Reads Worth Your Week: Tapestry, Mindfulness, Prediction Markets, and the Meat That Never Arrived

Five newly published long reads on historical memory, meditation's risks, prediction markets, cultivated meat, and housing in Marin County, with the context needed to decide what deserves your time.

Longform Reading Weekly Pick
Longform Reading Weekly Pick
2026-08-31

Five Long Reads Worth Your Week: Group Chats, Timber Towers, and Political Memory

Five new long reads from August 24–30, 2026, spanning friendship, timber construction, financial crime, wartime literature, and youth protest in India, with the context needed to choose what deserves your time.

Longform Reading Weekly Pick
Longform Reading Weekly Pick
2026-08-24

Five Long Reads Worth Your Week: Borders, Machines, and Inherited Pasts

Five new longform essays on migration, digital democracy, Argentina's dictatorship, Socratic inquiry, and wartime memory, with substantive context and rough reading times.

Longform Reading Weekly Pick
Longform Reading Weekly Pick
2026-08-17

Five Long Reads Worth Your Week: Aging Eyes, Russian Spies, and Alien Silence

Five newly published long reads on aging eyes, a Russian spy case, alien silence, Brazilian putafeminism, and Kate Millett's sculpture, with enough context to decide what deserves your time.

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