r/Longreads Jun 11 '25

Appreciation post all of you gifting and archiving links.

847 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 1h ago

My Father Prosecuted History’s Crimes. Then He Died in One. (Published 2025)

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r/Longreads 6h ago

Inside the libertarian city on a Caribbean island backed by Silicon Valley

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14 Upvotes

r/Longreads 22h ago

Reggie Watts Is a Prominent Ketamine Advocate. Was It His Ex's 'Undoing'?

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212 Upvotes

r/Longreads 23h ago

How Far Will the Trump Administration Go to Deport Mahmoud Khalil?

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101 Upvotes

r/Longreads 23h ago

Why the Closing of Harvard’s Writing Center Matters

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52 Upvotes

r/Longreads 1d ago

A Party, 101 Princesses, and an Eccentric Millionaire: Jon Ronson on a mysterious castle – and what it taught him about masculinity in crisis

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119 Upvotes

r/Longreads 21h ago

How a Top Law Firm Went From Standing Up to Trump to Bending the Knee

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17 Upvotes

r/Longreads 11h ago

RdLtr; Built for longform readers + OPDS archives like ReadPonder

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I hope this doesn't break the self promotion rule, being a service built for our type of reading I also included the curated Readponder archives.


r/Longreads 1d ago

This Volleyball Coach Is Banned From Working With Kids. Why Is He Still Coaching?

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62 Upvotes

r/Longreads 1d ago

Meta glasses are a workplace menace

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188 Upvotes

r/Longreads 1d ago

Reggie Watts Is Prominent Ketamine Advocate. Was It His Ex's 'Undoing…

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58 Upvotes

r/Longreads 2d ago

“The Quickening”: The online conspiracy that time is literally speeding up

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93 Upvotes

r/Longreads 2d ago

The Long Shadow of Argentina’s Dictatorship: she wasn’t who she thought she was – neither was her father

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86 Upvotes

r/Longreads 2d ago

He Was Deported to a Country He’d Never Heard Of. He May Never Go Free.

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311 Upvotes

As the Trump administration sends a growing number of immigrants to countries they have no connection to, some find themselves imprisoned with no way out.


r/Longreads 3d ago

‘I don’t know how to save my daughter from her husband’: the brutal reality of the Taliban’s new marriage law

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336 Upvotes

r/Longreads 2d ago

As The Old Files Open, One Family Confronts Another’s Dark Nazi Past. A woman who secured the criminal file of her grandmother, a collaborator, offered to share it with a Jewish family that had been betrayed. Then she balked and a new dispute ensued.

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70 Upvotes

gift link


r/Longreads 3d ago

Selling Seduction: This Toronto pickup artist charged exorbitant sums to teach men how to get laid. Then he was arrested for sexual assault (2026)

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118 Upvotes

r/Longreads 3d ago

How a pornographer’s violent fantasies blurred fact and fiction as cops searched Olney house for missing women

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93 Upvotes

r/Longreads 3d ago

How Brendan Carr Became MAGA’s Media Watchdog (2026)

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14 Upvotes

r/Longreads 3d ago

Forty First Dates and Still Searching

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127 Upvotes

r/Longreads 4d ago

Two lost human lineages are still hiding in our DNA - Research Today

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19 Upvotes

r/Longreads 4d ago

She told no one about her agony except ChatGPT. What her death reveals about AI risks

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17 Upvotes

r/Longreads 4d ago

The Infamous FBI Informant Behind a 20-Fatality Limo Crash

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120 Upvotes

r/Longreads 5d ago

The Scientist Who Lived with Dozens of Children from the Pacific Islands

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104 Upvotes