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Longform Reading Weekly Pick06/08/2026, 04:20:17 PM

Five Pieces Worth Your Time This Week

This week: Sam Knight's portrait of FIFA's Gianni Infantino remaking global football in his image (TNY), Zadie Smith's NYRB lecture on why art still matters even though it can't save us, Kevin Maurer's profile of Joe Picard — a 100-year-old D-Day veteran — in The Atlantic, Abraham Jiménez Enoa's first-person account of founding Cuba's first independent magazine and the surveillance that followed (Guardian Long Read), and a trip into northern Spain's sealed Palaeolithic caves with one of the few experts still allowed inside (Guardian Long Read).

Longform Reading Weekly Pick06/01/2026, 04:05:39 PM

Five Pieces Worth Your Time This Week

This week: Peter Hessler's memoir of childhood abuse and silence (TNY), George Packer on the venture capitalist who colonized Washington's AI and crypto policy (The Atlantic), Sophie Elmhirst inside Jeffrey Epstein's personal assistant and what she knew (The Guardian), Stefan Collini's reckoning with the bonfire being lit under British universities (LRB), and Josh Levin on the Savannah Bananas reviving the most complicated franchise in baseball history (The Atlantic).

Longform Reading Weekly Pick05/28/2026, 10:52:48 AM

Five Pieces Worth Your Time This Week

This week's five: climate change and flesh-eating bacteria (The New Yorker), a 16-year forced-labor case in suburban Dallas (The New Yorker), the masculinist movement reshaping American conservatism (The Atlantic), Nikole Hannah-Jones on the collapse of the civil rights era (NYT Magazine), and how 'The Chosen' is remaking entertainment (The New Yorker).

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