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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week

This week features pieces from Sabrina Imbler, Natan Last, Lulu Miller and John Megahan, Casey Cep, and David Grimm.

“Pushpin-specific lists fill his essays; single, stirring images lift from lines of his poems like the pages of a pop-up book.”

“Mukherjee was fascinated with cells early on. But then he was interested in so many things.”

“My dad grew up in Robert Moses’s New York City. His story is a testament to how urban planning shapes countless lives.”

“Consider that Three Mile Island officials chose not to evacuate the surrounding community for days after the reactor meltdown.”

“On poetry and mourning.”

Linda Button on her toughest writing assignment yet: her business partner’s epitaph.

While my uncle was dying from a rare cancer, he found solace in a hotel whose staff became a surrogate family.

by Longreads June 8, 2023June 8, 2023

Gary Settle has helped dozens of federal prisoners get compassionate release. Will it ever be his turn to go home?

“Today, I will explain to my healthy transplanted heart why, in what may be a matter of days or weeks at best, she — well, we — will die.”