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All the top #longreads of 2022, selected by our editors, featured authors, and readers.

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The Switzerland Schedule

Robin Williamson | The Audacity | January 11, 2022 | 4,597 words

“In one of the many conversations I had with my mother after her attempt, I asked her whether it would be appropriate, desirable, or ethical for her to try again.”

Day One at Rikers Island

Graham Rayman And Reuven Blau | Esquire | January 9, 2023 | 4,447 words

“In order to navigate the experience, you have to normalize the dehumanization. You have to buy into it in order to survive.”

Misdirectives

Ian Altman | Lapham’s Quarterly | December 13, 2022 | 3,583 words

“A public high school teacher asks why the wrong things cause a fuss in schools.”

Downward Spiral

Kate Evans | bioGraphic | June 4, 2022 | 4,304 words

“The nautilus’s lineage made it through all five of Earth’s previous mass extinctions. But can it survive the Anthropocene?”

Living With Wolves

Nikki Kolb | Catapult | January 3, 2022 | 3,410 words

“Working at a wolf sanctuary became part of my identity. Leaving the pack was harder than I expected.”

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