"Call it vigilante justice or guerrilla tactics, but there’s a sense of stalwart duty as the lab attempts to dismantle generative AI."
Kelley Engelbrecht for Chicago Magazine: https://longreads.com/2025/03/13/the-great-ai-art-heist/
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"Poring over social media isn’t so different than idly wondering what happened to young people in a well-loved yearbook."
Jordan P. Hickey for D Magazine: https://longreads.com/2025/03/12/plano-senior-high-alums-instagram-quest-to-find-1122-former-classmates/
"How Sheridan creates these worlds complements the theme of one brave man — occasionally, a woman — taking on the malignant forces hell-bent on destroying this country." —Stephen Rodrick for Rolling Stone
https://longreads.com/2025/03/11/its-taylor-sheridans-world-were-just-watching-it/
"If it could be proven that the church was built on the foundation of holy fungi, not only would figures like Allegro be vindicated — psychedelics, too, could no longer be considered so taboo."
John Last for The Long Now Foundation: https://longreads.com/2025/03/11/is-god-a-mushroom/
"One hour later, on the second stretch and fold, I felt the fairy dust of fermentation, a continuous cycle of death and resurrection; out of crumble and shreds came elasticity. The dough was in dialogue with me, teeming with vivacity."
"I will never know if my grandfather and his father realized the magnitude of their complicity in Italy’s colonial dreams."
Stefania D’Ignoti for New Lines Magazine: https://longreads.com/2025/03/07/my-grandpa-the-fascist/
Our #Longreads Top 5:
- Harm and hope in West Virginia (The Delacorte Review)
- The fast-food fight Ali lost (Defector)
- The day doubt took over (Aeon)
- When fear slithers in (The Bitter Southerner)
- Kitzbühel’s wild side (Outside)
Longreads · The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
"That night, after wading through a street party unlike anything I’d seen, I talked my way into the Londoner through a side door. The scene looked like something from the 1978 comedy Animal House." —Devon 0"Neil for Outside
"Nothing had really happened, but my anxiety aroused in me wild imaginings, and neither my knowledge nor my clinical experience could dispel them."
Ronald W. Dworkin for Aeon Magazine: https://longreads.com/2025/03/05/when-i-lost-my-intuition/
"Five decades later, I remain terrified of walking across a moonlit lawn or even strolling along the sidewalk after dusk. Every fallen twig looks like a baby rattler."
Rebecca Burns for The Bitter Southerner: https://longreads.com/2025/03/05/here-be-serpents/
There's been lots of stories about H5N1, but I've yet to see a deep dive into where it came from—which is also the story of how industrial poultry production methods turn harmless influenzas into monsters.
My latest, for Nautilus:
https://nautil.us/the-unnatural-history-of-bird-flu-1189930/
Nautilus · The Unnatural History of Bird FluH5N1 is a human creation
"It’s wooed executives from Google and Amazon. And last year, Walmart’s shares rose by an astonishing 72%, outpacing those of Costco, Kroger and Target."
Jaewon Kang and Devin Leonard for Bloomberg Businessweek: https://longreads.com/2025/03/05/walmart-wants-to-be-something-for-everyone-in-a-divided-america/
"Pennell left a trove of letters and diaries behind, but they sat largely unconsulted for a century. The romance hidden inside them was a gift waiting for the right moment to be discovered."
An excerpt from the new Atavist Magazine issue by Allegra Rosenberg:
https://longreads.com/2025/03/04/antarctica-south-pole-expedition-love/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social
Longreads · The Romance History Forgot
"In a city that never sleeps, Gorton wasn’t allowed to sleep, either. Even in the richest and most glamorous neighborhoods of Manhattan, the font would be there, doing the devil’s work without complaining. Gorton made Gotham feel bougie; American Typewriter touristy."
@mwichary on #typography: https://longreads.com/2025/03/04/the-hardest-working-font-in-manhattan/
"Hunting is an essential part of the traditional San lifestyle dating back thousands of years. Now, it is still a means for survival, just in a more convoluted way."
Anthony J. Wallace for Foreign Policy: https://longreads.com/2025/03/03/shooting-an-elephant-in-botswana/
I'm re-building my "read it later" collection, and I'd love to hear some of the sources you find yourself constantly returning to and/or engaging with.
Any #longreads? #shortreads? #blogs?
What are your favourite #RSS feeds my friends!
"It seemed inevitable that he would soon ascend to the highest plane attainable for a goose — or a person, for that matter — in postindustrial America: He was on the cusp of becoming a brand."
https://longreads.com/2025/02/28/who-killed-the-footless-goose/
Here's what we've got for you in our Weekly Top 5:
* Propagate language, preserve culture (Noēma)
* Hip-hop hooch hustles (Taste)
* Grieving a landscape lost (Salvation South)
* A gutsy take on indigestion (VQR)
* All the feels for the forums (The Fence)
Learn why our editors have recommended these pieces and find out which story our audience loved most.
Longreads · The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
"Perhaps the wry twist in Twain’s output came from a similar torque in his guts. A friend once called my prose voice 'acidic.' With an iron stomach, might I read less bitter?"
Will Boast for Virginia Quarterly Review: https://longreads.com/2025/02/27/from-the-gut/
"Change came like a tsunami—which, contrary to what many people think, does not always announce itself with a mighty roar, but seeps in under the door when you aren’t looking."
Tracy Thompson for Salvation South: https://longreads.com/2025/02/27/solastalgia/
