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The Sunday Long Read
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The Sunday Long Read
@sundaylongread
The very best longform journalism, chosen every Sunday by @DVNJr & @JacobFeldman4. “A newsletter born of love.” — @AirMailWeekly. Since 2014.
Joined December 2014
- We're so excited to announce our newest contributing cartoonist—Reza Farazmand, a New York Times-bestselling author, cartoonist, and creator of the popular internet comic series “Poorly Drawn Lines" (@PDLComics). Enjoy his debut strip for The SLR!
- Marcela Topor recognizes that her life story sounds like it’s pulled from the plot of a movie. “But sadly,” she says, “it’s true.” Check out this latest #SLR original piece by @meg_bernhard.
- “My temperature hovered in the upper reaches of 102. It felt like my head was on fire. One night I sweated through five shirts. I shook so much from the chills I thought I chipped a tooth.” @BillPlaschke for @latimes
- "I thought it’d be a very juicy story about media and political personalities. By the second or third section, I realized I was reading a story that explains nearly everything." Guest editor @michaelngraff on his pick this week by @JaneMayerNYer. newyorker.com/magazine/2019/…
- #SLRLastLaugh ☀️ “Pat Sajak is an empty suit. He is that one real estate agent your wife didn’t like. He possesses all the warmth of a Cheesecake Factory host. And his takes are boilerplate cocktail party fascism.” @drewmagary
- For your Thanksgiving weekend reading pleasure, we present guest editor @drewmagary's classic reads:
- "This devastating story about the life and death and capture and homecoming of a whale named Tokitae/Sk’aliCh’ehl-tenaut is gorgeously written and structured...I feel grateful that @CaitJGibson thought to tell it." Guest editor @esmedeprez on her top pick:
- This discovery made by a grad student at the College of Charleston is about our country’s terrible legacy, but with the historians trying to piece together the truth, it's also a story of the country’s promise. @JenBerryHawes propublica.org/article/how-gr…
- The @nytimes and @ProPublica have done it again, with another collaboration that left us shaking our heads in awe. SLR contributor @pamelacolloff’s writing, full of stick-with-you detail, explains how things really work inside prison and out. nytimes.com/2019/12/04/mag…
- In this deeply reported, beautifully told story, @pamelacolloff describes an assistant district attorney’s attempt to extinguish a nearly 30-year-old injustice. @DVNJr's favorite this week
- "What I love about this story is that it’s as much about humans as animals. Through science and travel, @andersen explores the different ways people understand our place in the world—and how little we truly know." @JacobFeldman4 on his pick this week: theatlantic.com/magazine/archi…
- A year ago, Washington Post opinion writer Jamal Khashoggi walked into the Saudi consulate in Istanbul for an appointment. He was murdered inside. @ev_rat reports on Khashoggi’s murder, the aftermath and the cover-up, aided and abetted by silence. insider.com/the-murder-of-…
