Longreads

I read a lot of articles on the internet. I particularly enjoy longreads, or longform journalism. According to wikipedia, we're talking about "longer articles with larger amounts of content" - between 1,000 and 20,000 words. According to me, we're talking about any story I find interesting that's on the internet.

I use Pocket to hold on to and read articles. The ones listed below are those I've "favorited" through the app with the most recently read at the beginning.

If you're looking for a good read, I'd reccommend any of the ones below. I'd also reccommend all of the following email newsletters: Longreads, Longform, and the Sunday long read.

The Great Freight-Train Heists of the 21st Century

malia wollan


6415 words · 32 min

02-01-2024

I Never Called Her Momma

jenisha watts


10852 words · 54 min

09-28-2023

Running With Hank

caleb daniloff


2984 words · 15 min

02-27-2023

The Crypto Story

matt levine


38754 words · 194 min

11-18-2022

Adrift Between My Parents’ Two Americas

david treuer


5624 words · 28 min

07-25-2022

Featherweight

sterling holywhitemountain


5672 words · 28 min

07-25-2022

The Haves and the Have-Yachts

evan osnos


10081 words · 50 min

07-24-2022

I’ve Always Struggled With My Weight. Losing It Didn’t Mean Winning.

sam anderson


4365 words · 22 min

05-22-2022

Gina. Rosanne. Guy.

kerry howley


8787 words · 44 min

01-02-2022

Call Me a Traitor

kerry howley


8439 words · 42 min

12-11-2021

‘I Don’t Know That I Would Even Call It Meth Anymore’

sam quinones


7706 words · 39 min

11-07-2021

Katie Couric Is Not for Everyone

rebecca traister


7071 words · 35 min

11-03-2021

Katie Couric Is Not for Everyone

rebecca traister


7071 words · 35 min

11-03-2021

Who Actually Gets to Create Black Pop Culture? ❧ Current Affairs

current affairs


6365 words · 32 min

08-16-2021

What Bobby McIlvaine Left Behind

jennifer senior


12744 words · 64 min

08-16-2021

My Father Vanished When I Was 7. The Mystery Made Me Who I Am.

nicholas casey


8525 words · 43 min

06-24-2021

The Amazon That Customers Don’t See

karen weise

grace ashford

jodi kantor, 


9546 words · 48 min

06-22-2021

Stop Telling Women They Have Imposter Syndrome

ruchika tulshyan

jodi-ann burey


1589 words · 8 min

04-22-2021

White people, black authors are not your medicine

yaa gyasi


1527 words · 8 min

04-12-2021

To the Class of 2050

jen spyra


723 words · 4 min

03-07-2021

Traversing the Darien Gap, the Longest Walk to America


7099 words · 35 min

12-23-2020

The Promise That Tested My Parents Until the End

christopher solomon


3903 words · 20 min

11-24-2020

Make government jobs cool again

david ewing duncan


1040 words · 5 min

11-08-2020

The Mystery of the Immaculate Concussion

julia ioffe


8867 words · 44 min

11-03-2020

The Corporate Feminism of NXIVM

alice bolin


5021 words · 25 min

11-02-2020

My Mustache, My Self

wesley morris


5640 words · 28 min

10-26-2020

Departure point: Little noted, they bear scars of that day

eric moskowitz


4692 words · 23 min

09-11-2020

Breonna Taylor’s Life Was Changing. Then the Police Came to Her Door.

rukmini callimachi


6404 words · 32 min

09-09-2020

Thanks For Nothing

sara benincasa


4347 words · 22 min

08-16-2020

My Life as a Drunk

clancy martin


3793 words · 19 min

08-15-2020

You Want a Confederate Monument? My Body Is a Confederate Monument

caroline randall williams


1010 words · 5 min

07-22-2020

Where Did My Ambition Go?

maris kreizman


1649 words · 8 min

07-22-2020

Only A Mile And A Big World Separated Us

d. watkins


9041 words · 45 min

05-19-2020

When Your (Brown) Body is a (White) Wonderland


1818 words · 9 min

05-15-2020

What Happened to Val Kilmer? He’s Just Starting to Figure It Out.

taffy brodesser-akner


15716 words · 79 min

05-15-2020

My Restaurant Was My Life for 20 Years. Does the World Need It Anymore?

gabrielle hamilton


12042 words · 60 min

05-05-2020

How Mitch McConnell Became Trump’s Enabler-in-Chief

jane mayer


11686 words · 58 min

04-27-2020

The Lawyer Whose Clients Didn’t Exist

francesca mari


6872 words · 34 min

04-20-2020

The Worst Friend Date I Ever Had

samantha irby


4035 words · 20 min

04-06-2020

Four Years in Startups

anna wiener


7264 words · 36 min

03-01-2020

Heaven or High Water

sarah miller


4164 words · 21 min

01-04-2020

He Trots the Air

pam houston


2500 words · 13 min

01-03-2020

The Why of Cooking

sarah miller


3314 words · 17 min

01-03-2020

The Movement to Bring Death Closer

maggie jones


9053 words · 45 min

12-31-2019

The story of Jamal Khashoggi's murder and how the world looked the other way

evan ratliff


10885 words · 54 min

10-05-2019

Choosing a School for My Daughter in a Segregated City

nikole hannah-jones


9782 words · 49 min

09-24-2019

The Rise of the Spice Girls Generation

caity weaver


2657 words · 13 min

09-11-2019

The Tragedy on Howse Peak

nick heil


5376 words · 27 min

09-11-2019

The Gospel According to Marianne Williamson

taffy brodesser-akner


5841 words · 29 min

09-10-2019

Twelve Words


7147 words · 36 min

09-10-2019

The Radical Vision of Toni Morrison

rachel kaadzi ghansah


7286 words · 36 min

08-30-2019

America Wasn’t a Democracy, Until Black Americans Made It One (Published 2019)

nikole hannah-jones


7500 words · 38 min

08-29-2019

American Capitalism Is Brutal. You Can Trace That to the Plantation. (Published 2019)

matthew desmond


5261 words · 26 min

08-27-2019

‘We Have Fire Everywhere’

jon mooallem


10687 words · 53 min

08-11-2019

The Girl From Plainville

jesse barron


6124 words · 31 min

07-12-2019

Hideous Men

e. jean carroll

amanda demme


6442 words · 32 min

06-30-2019

What Really Happened to Malaysia’s Missing Airplane

william langewiesche


9953 words · 50 min

06-24-2019

The mystery of Tucker Carlson

lyz lenz


6782 words · 34 min

05-31-2019

Inside Gang Territory in Honduras: ‘Either They Kill Us or We Kill Them.’

may


6408 words · 32 min

05-31-2019

15 Months of Fresh Hell Inside Facebook

nicholas thompson


12126 words · 61 min

04-24-2019

Guantánamo’s Darkest Secret

ben taub


19349 words · 97 min

04-21-2019

The Day the Dinosaurs Died

douglas preston


10148 words · 51 min

04-01-2019

There Is No Reason to Cross the U.S. by Train. But I Did It Anyway.

caity weaver


22520 words · 113 min

03-23-2019

It Was Just a Kayaking Trip. Until It Upended Our Lives. (Published 2019)

jon mooallem


22540 words · 113 min

03-23-2019

Fearing for his life

chloé cooper jones


6522 words · 33 min

03-18-2019

The Tragedy of Baltimore

alec macgillis


8021 words · 40 min

03-16-2019

Michael Jackson Cast a Spell. ‘Leaving Neverland’ Breaks It.

wesley morris


7139 words · 36 min

03-13-2019

The Porta-Potty King of New York City Faces a Threat to His Throne

david gauvey herbert

brian finke


3505 words · 18 min

02-10-2019

The life and times of Strider Wolf

sarah schweitzer


6711 words · 34 min

01-12-2019

He Helped Build an Artists’ Utopia. Now He Faces Trial for 36 Deaths There.

elizabeth weil


10934 words · 55 min

12-16-2018

Losing Laura

peter demarco


38 words · 0 min

11-10-2018

Did Uber Steal Google’s Intellectual Property?

charles duhigg


9529 words · 48 min

10-24-2018

The FBI of the National Park Service

rachel monroe


5634 words · 28 min

10-23-2018

Unprotected

finlay young


13362 words · 67 min

10-14-2018

Searching for Sugar Daddy

taffy brodesser-akner


4404 words · 22 min

10-08-2018

Are You Woman Enough For The UFC?

taffy brodesser-akner


7397 words · 37 min

10-07-2018

The Cartel Next Door

michael j. mooney


7865 words · 39 min

09-30-2018

The Untold Story of NotPetya, the Most Devastating Cyberattack in History

andy greenberg


6244 words · 31 min

08-28-2018

How a Transplanted Face Transformed Katie Stubblefield’s Life

joanna connors


9068 words · 45 min

08-16-2018

Who is Bill May, and why can't he go to the Olympics?

john huet


10782 words · 54 min

07-31-2018

How Goop’s Haters Made Gwyneth Paltrow’s Company Worth $250 Million

taffy brodesser-akner


8054 words · 40 min

07-27-2018

Alt-Right Troll To Father Killer: The Unraveling Of Lane Davis

joseph bernstein


1023 words · 5 min

07-25-2018

The Untold Story of Otto Warmbier, American Hostage

doug bock clark


9688 words · 48 min

07-25-2018

Fortnite Has Become the Instagram of Video Games

brian feldman

michelle groskopf


5072 words · 25 min

07-13-2018

In Praise of Being Washed

zach baron


1959 words · 10 min

07-08-2018

My Adventures With the Trip Doctors (Published 2018)

michael pollan


8731 words · 44 min

05-28-2018

The Weird, Dangerous, Isolated Life of the Saturation Diver

jen banbury


4507 words · 23 min

05-21-2018

Trump vs. the “Deep State”

evan osnos


8200 words · 41 min

05-20-2018

A Lynching Memorial Is Opening. The Country Has Never Seen Anything Like It.

campbell robertson


1155 words · 6 min

04-30-2018

Does Recovery Kill Great Writing?

leslie jamison


5975 words · 30 min

04-22-2018

Why America’s Black Mothers and Babies Are in a Life-or-Death Crisis

linda villarosa


9734 words · 49 min

04-16-2018

How 88rising Is Making a Place for Asians in Hip-Hop

hua hsu


5944 words · 30 min

04-01-2018

Can Venezuela Be Saved?

wil s. hylton


8562 words · 43 min

03-13-2018

The Male Glance

lili loofbourow


5975 words · 30 min

03-11-2018

The Lottery Hackers

jason fagone


10515 words · 53 min

03-04-2018

“Black Panther” and the Invention of “Africa”

jelani cobb


2138 words · 11 min

02-26-2018

The Road


7968 words · 40 min

02-20-2018

The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek

john branch


3064 words · 15 min

02-13-2018

What I Learned from Watching My iPad’s Slow Death

john herrman


1364 words · 7 min

02-07-2018

Can You Say...Hero?

tom junod


7974 words · 40 min

02-04-2018

Is ‘RuPaul’s Drag Race’ the Most Radical Show on TV?

jenna wortham


6139 words · 31 min

02-02-2018

Beyond the Bitcoin Bubble

steven johnson


8867 words · 44 min

01-18-2018

Governor’s fix-it man exits

frank curran


4350 words · 22 min

01-15-2018

The dark side of .io: How the U.K. is making web domain profits from a shady Cold War land deal

icann


1454 words · 7 min

01-09-2018

The Heart of Whiteness: Ijeoma Oluo Interviews Rachel Dolezal, the White Woman Who Identifies as Black

ijeoma oluo


4321 words · 22 min

01-09-2018

Trashed: Inside the Deadly World of Private Garbage Collection

kiera feldman


9633 words · 48 min

01-09-2018

Dwayne Johnson for President!

caity weaver


5264 words · 26 min

12-25-2017

Deliverance From 27,000 Feet

john branch


13141 words · 66 min

12-24-2017

Jordan Peele’s X-Ray Vision

wesley morris


5837 words · 29 min

12-24-2017

Beyond the Finish Line

tim rohan


4247 words · 21 min

12-24-2017

Estonia, the Digital Republic

nathan heller


7610 words · 38 min

12-23-2017

Boston. Racism. Image. Reality: The Spotlight Team takes on our hardest question

the spotlight team


4575 words · 23 min

12-11-2017

The Making of an American Nazi

luke o’brien


9711 words · 49 min

12-03-2017

Underworld

jeanne marie laskas


10299 words · 51 min

11-28-2017

No Normal

carrie brownstein


2673 words · 13 min

11-23-2017

Why Pop Culture Just Can’t Deal With Black Male Sexuality (Published 2016)

jaime lowe

taffy brodesser-akner

rivka galchen

jonathan lethem

wesley morris


6234 words · 31 min

11-15-2017

Traffic

jeanne marie laskas


8407 words · 42 min

11-15-2017

The Incredible Buddha Boy

george saunders


10532 words · 53 min

11-15-2017

Inside Trump’s Cruel Campaign Against the U.S.D.A.’s Scientists

michael lewis


11805 words · 59 min

11-13-2017

After rehabilitation, the best of Michael Phelps may lie ahead

tim layden


6512 words · 33 min

10-04-2017

Keepers of the Secrets

james somers


3104 words · 16 min

10-04-2017

The Untold Story of Kim Jong-nam’s Assassination

doug bock clark


6789 words · 34 min

10-01-2017

The Coming Software Apocalypse

james somers


9141 words · 46 min

09-27-2017

The First White President

ta-nehisi coates


7972 words · 40 min

09-17-2017

This Is How Sexism Works in Silicon Valley

ellen pao


5372 words · 27 min

08-31-2017

A Most American Terrorist: The Making of Dylann Roof

rachel kaadzi ghansah


12112 words · 61 min

08-28-2017

Why the Scariest Nuclear Threat May Be Coming from Inside the White House

michael lewis


12665 words · 63 min

08-01-2017

Jared Kushner’s Other Real Estate Empire in Baltimore

alec macgillis/propublica


6046 words · 30 min

06-25-2017

The Ken Doll Reboot: Beefy, Cornrowed, and Pan-Racial

caity weaver


4079 words · 20 min

06-25-2017

The unthinkable fate of Chapecoense

sam borden


8758 words · 44 min

06-11-2017

The Future of America Is Being Written In This Tiny Office

jonathan cohn


5931 words · 30 min

05-29-2017

What Bullets Do to Bodies

jason fagone


7615 words · 38 min

05-29-2017

Inside Hillary Clinton’s Surreal Post-Election Life

rebecca traister


8057 words · 40 min

05-29-2017

Wanna Know What Donald Trump Is Really Thinking? Read Maggie Haberman

rachael combe


4908 words · 25 min

05-29-2017

Inside the Hunt for Russia’s Most Notorious Hacker

garrett m. graff


6877 words · 34 min

04-01-2017

Dissecting Trump’s Most Rabid Online Following

trevor martin


2480 words · 12 min

03-24-2017

The Great A.I. Awakening

gideon lewis-kraus


14747 words · 74 min

01-10-2017


Tech notes

This app is put together using NextJS and React. The data comes from the Pocket api. The code can be found on github, and you can checkout other things I've built/worked on here.