Longform Reading Weekly Pick06/01/2026, 04:05:39 PMFive Pieces Worth Your Time This WeekThis 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 AMFive Pieces Worth Your Time This WeekThis 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).