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Oct 1, 2026
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Jul 6, 2026

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  1. Article · Oct 1, 2026 · Carolyn Wells

    Journalist Evan Gershkovich: My 491 Days as Putin's Political Prisoner - Longreads (opens the original)

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    In this tense, riveting first-person excerpt from his new book This Cursed Beautiful Land: A Russian Story, Evan Gershkovich recounts the harrowing months he spent as a prisoner in Russia, leading up to his eventual release in a complex, multi-country prisoner exchange. Even in the darkness, Gershkovich offers rays of light: care packages from friends, letters by the hundred, and a cautiously blossoming love with a friend in Berlin. We may know the ending, but the details of these days reveal wh

  2. Article · Oct 1, 2026 · Carolyn Wells

    I Lost Myself When I Lost Hong Kong - Longreads (opens the original)

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    A powerful reflection on the pull of nostalgia, on learning to accept that a past life is gone even as you tentatively reach back for it. Tiffany Huang captures the ache of lost opportunities and regretted paths, of staying a course out of duty and responsibility even as your sense of home erodes. It’s a gorgeous, bittersweet read about what it means to move on long before you’ve fully let go. You unmasked for the first time, revealing smooth cheeks, a sharp chin, and a long nose. You talked abo

  3. Article · Sep 18, 2026 · Carolyn Wells

    No, But - Longreads (opens the original)

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    I’m not a fan of improv. I’ve even walked out of a class before—being told to pretend to give birth just wasn’t for me. But its popularity was once never in doubt: people were all too willing to shell out hard‑earned cash to watch performers fumble through impromptu sketches. Nowadays, the form has lost its shine, and Dennis M. Hogan traces whether it still has a place in today’s culture. The inspired title alone means this is a read you should say “yes” to. During the boom years of the late 200

  4. Article · Sep 18, 2026 · Carolyn Wells

    Murder-in-Law - Longreads (opens the original)

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    This story moves chronologically through a marriage that begins to unravel—with fatal consequences. The victim is Dan Markel, the ex-husband of Wendi Adelson, but it’s the involvement of Wendi’s domineering mother, Donna, and her brother, Charlie, that leads to his tragic end. Katherine Laidlaw shows how there were far more than two people in this marriage—and far more than two lives destroyed when it fell apart. Harvey was nominally the breadwinner, but Donna ruled the family. She had strict id

  5. Article · Sep 17, 2026 · Carolyn Wells

    Shetland's Most Wanted - Longreads (opens the original)

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    Daniel Shailer embeds with the tiny separatist group “Shetland First,” whose members believe the Shetland Islands were never legitimately ceded to Scotland. Its 83‑year‑old leader, Stuart Hill—shipwreck survivor, serial litigant, self‑proclaimed weather‑controller—is such a compelling eccentric that Shailer ends up as absorbed in Hill’s own story as in the broader currents of populism on these remote isles. Previously, Hill has focused on relatively esoteric points of history and legalese. Now,

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