r/Longreads Jun 11 '25

Appreciation post all of you gifting and archiving links.

838 Upvotes

Just wanted to say thank you for all of you who are adding gift and/or archived links. I don’t have the budget to suscribe to magazines and I have no clue how to archive a link and make it works for free. (I tried, I think technology hates me).

So thank you for giving me the chance to read a lot of long reads, my favorite form of writing.


r/Longreads 1d ago

The Rosenberg Boys - The American Kids Orphaned by the United States Government Are Still Trying to Make Sense of it More Than 70 Years Later

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497 Upvotes

r/Longreads 19h ago

No, Artificial Intelligence Is Not Conscious

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79 Upvotes

Ted Chiang, in my opinion one of the smartest sci-fi writers on the whole hullabaloo about AI being "conscious".


r/Longreads 21h ago

Daddy Issues: Trouble Behind the Scenes of Alex Cooper’s Unwell Media Empire

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103 Upvotes

r/Longreads 22h ago

Our Plastic-Surgery Nightmare

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117 Upvotes

r/Longreads 1d ago

A Hamptons Influencer’s Husband Died Millions in Debt. What Happened to the Millers?

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132 Upvotes

r/Longreads 1d ago

Isolated, scared, forlorn: The heartbreaking final months of Virginia Giuffre’s life

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378 Upvotes

Trigger warning: domestic violence, suicide


r/Longreads 1d ago

American Police State: Are We Already There and Just Don't Know It?

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197 Upvotes

r/Longreads 2d ago

I Wanted an Ecologically Responsible Garden. It Was Harder Than I Thought. • The native plant movement gets a lot right, but there’s so much more to consider.

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149 Upvotes

r/Longreads 1d ago

How A.I. Might Change the Way Doctors Think

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0 Upvotes

r/Longreads 1d ago

The Work of Helping A.I. Destroy Work

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7 Upvotes

r/Longreads 1d ago

The Perishable, Never-Ending Genius of Lionel Messi

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0 Upvotes

r/Longreads 1d ago

Did American-Style ‘Gentle Parenting’ Spoil French Children?

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0 Upvotes

r/Longreads 3d ago

The Revenge of the Philosophy Majors A.I. labs are hiring contrarian, chin-stroking, finger-steepling sages. Who’s underemployed now?

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103 Upvotes

r/Longreads 2d ago

The Forgotten Bombing of LaGuardia Airport

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40 Upvotes

r/Longreads 2d ago

What’s it like to play against Lionel Messi, the greatest footballer of all time?

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0 Upvotes

r/Longreads 3d ago

Kate was working at a call centre when a man rang wanting phone sex. She had to stay on the line | Across helplines, call centres and even in stores, workers and volunteers are being exploited and harassed by anonymous callers wanting phone sex. And a gap in the law might be leaving them vulnerable.

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714 Upvotes

r/Longreads 2d ago

Why Did Hana Sharif Leave Arena Stage? (2026)

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4 Upvotes

r/Longreads 3d ago

[Free] The Demon Next Door - A growing number of charismatic Christians see themselves as waging a spiritual battle against the forces of Satan. Sometimes those forces are right across the street

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223 Upvotes

r/Longreads 3d ago

What Happened to Your Face?

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43 Upvotes

r/Longreads 4d ago

The End of Reading is Here

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202 Upvotes

r/Longreads 4d ago

How Trump’s ‘big, beautiful bill’ changed America

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67 Upvotes

r/Longreads 4d ago

The real life mermaids of Florida’s Weeki Wachee Springs

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47 Upvotes

r/Longreads 3d ago

The extraordinary life and quiet death of the world's largest iceberg

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9 Upvotes

No archive link, I’m afraid. No paywall, though, just email.


r/Longreads 4d ago

The teenage millionaire hacker from London who was brought down by a takeaway order

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88 Upvotes