โThis Was Our Lifeโ: A Reading List on Multigenerational Caregiving

Longreads features
The Secret Door
Was It Worth It?
Finding the Magic in Writing with Lidia Yuknavitch
The Wayfinders
The Memory Maker
The Age of Dinosaurs
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Recent editors’ picks
The Chinese Whiz Kids of Silicon Valley
“Chinese-born tech workers have fueled Silicon Valley for decades. In the AI era, theyโre superstars.”
Reality Check
“AI-generated images have left us questioning what is real. But the godfather of digital forensics, Hany Farid, is not giving up.”
The Banal Horror of Jimmy Fallon
“Under the sterile blue lights of his studio, Fallon laughs endlessly at the same pseudo-jokes, rubs elbows with Trump and Sam Altman, and ushers in the death of culture.”
ChatGPT Gave Me Chilling Adviceโas I Simulated Planning a Mass Shooting
“I asked about imitating the Uvalde attacker, defending against police gunfire, and moreโeverything short of directly stating intent to kill.”
Wish You Were Her
โAboard the celebrity impersonatorsโ cruise.โ
I Work in Hollywood. Everyone Who Used to Make TV Is Now Secretly Training AI
“For screenwriters like meโand job seekers all overโAI gig work is the new waiting tables.”
The Clippening
“‘Clippers’ cut up podcasts, videos, and events into infinite shorter versions. How long can they ride the algorithms?”
The Desert Safety Net
“Every winter, tens of thousands of Americans migrate to public lands in the Arizona desert. For a growing number, it’s not a vacationโitโs the only housing they can afford.”
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Weekly Top 5
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
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The Longreads questionnaire
The Longreads Questionnaire, Featuring Vauhini Vara
The Longreads Questionnaire, Featuring Ibram X. Kendi
The Longreads Questionnaire, Featuring Patrick Radden Keefe
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Excerpts from The Atavist Magazine, our sister publication
Open Season
The Good Catholics of Buffalo
The Dark and Stormy Tale of a ShantyTok Band
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Longreads reading lists
Holding Pattern: A Reading List on Waiting . . .
Long Live the Rom-Com
Seeing is Believing: A Reading List on Making Meaning from Data
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