I Spent Months with an AI Companion. It Was Worse than Being Alone - Longreads
"I hated the mindless reassurance and generic empathy."
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Whither the Nerd-Bully? - Longreads
"Bill Gates was the monopolistic father figure who Silicon Valley’s young founders rebelled against—and, in so rebelling, became."
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week - Longreads
Featuring stories about celebrity look-alikes, siblings, desert living, philanthrocapitalism, and life inside a legal brothel.
Meet the Sad Wives of AI - Longreads
"Are you married to a man who’s obsessed with AI? I’m so, so sorry."
The Guadalupe Swept Us Away. This Is the Story of All That Came After. -…
"In the days after last July’s historic disaster, I wrote about the tragedy that befell my family. But crawling out of the river…
Consider the Sister - Longreads
"Amy Wallace has spent two decades guarding the human her brother was—against a world that prefers David Foster Wallace as a…
Failure To Lawn - Longreads
On what a dying patch of turfgrass can teach us about water scarcity, ecological repair, and the lies we tell ourselves about…
The Chinese Whiz Kids of Silicon Valley - Longreads
"Chinese-born tech workers have fueled Silicon Valley for decades. In the AI era, they’re superstars."
ChatGPT Gave Me Chilling Advice—as I Simulated Planning a Mass Shooting -…
"I asked about imitating the Uvalde attacker, defending against police gunfire, and more—everything short of directly stating…
‘This Was Our Life’: A Reading List on Multigenerational Caregiving - Longreads
Five stories on the overwhelming, profound art of caring for other people.
Open Season - Longreads
"Colorado’s San Luis Valley was a wildlife poacher’s paradise. Then an undercover federal agent arrived."
The Secret Door - Longreads
"When we read, we make believe. We aren’t duped or ensorcelled. Deep down we decide. We make ourselves believe."
Finding the Magic in Writing with Lidia Yuknavitch - Longreads
On shitty first, second, and third drafts; embracing the struggle to write; and more.
The Longreads Questionnaire, Featuring Vauhini Vara - Longreads
The author of Searches: Selfhood in the Digital Age and The Immortal King Rao on memorable meals and books about whales.
The Last Nation to Play - Longreads
The Marshall Islands' first men's national soccer team discovers what “home” can mean—on a field in Springdale, Arkansas.
The Longreads Questionnaire, Featuring Ibram X. Kendi - Longreads
The Stamped and How to Be an Antiracist author on the superpower he'd like to have, the outlets he likes to read, and his latest…
Holding Pattern: A Reading List on Waiting . . . - Longreads
Everyone waits. No one is spared the waiting room, one way or another. Seven stories on an essential human condition.
The Longreads Questionnaire, Featuring Patrick Radden Keefe - Longreads
The New Yorker staff writer and author of the new book London Falling on running, writing in the morning, a life-changing…
The Good Catholics of Buffalo - Longreads
With thousands of US soldiers dying in Vietnam, a righteous group of young New Yorkers embarked on a secret mission to bring the…
The Age of Dinosaurs - Longreads
"Ruminating on extinction, under the slanted tutelage of my child, felt like a responsible thing to do."
The Dark and Stormy Tale of a ShantyTok Band - Longreads
When a scraggly band of folk musicians arrived to tour the UK, residents of a small Welsh town were enamored—until they learned…
Long Live the Rom-Com - Longreads
Love, Actually, Never Died: A reading list on the evolution of the romantic comedy.