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Weekly top long-form essays from The Atlantic, The New Yorker, Longform.org, with read-time and topic context

Long-Form Reading Pick06/06/2026, 10:19:14 PM

This week's read: When should you say goodbye to a pet?

This week's Saturday essay is Sunita Puri's New Yorker Weekend Essay — a palliative-care physician follows a Massachusetts veterinarian who built one of America's in-home pet hospice practices, and asks the same hard questions that animate human end-of-life medicine: what is a good quality of life, how much suffering is too much, and when is the right moment to let go? Reported through three patient cases, the essay finds that answering those questions for animals may be the only rehearsal most of us get for answering them about ourselves. ~24-minute read.

Long-Form Reading Pick05/30/2026, 10:17:22 PM

This week's read: When the Religious Right came for Martin Scorsese

This week's Saturday read is Isaac Butler's New Yorker Weekend Essay — a reconstruction of the 1988 religious-right campaign against Scorsese's The Last Temptation of Christ, and an argument that its tactics (boycotts, pre-viewing outrage, victim-frame reversal, controversy-as-fundraising) became the prototype for every American culture war since. ~25–30 min read.

Long-Form Reading Pick05/23/2026, 10:12:39 PM

This Week's Read: What Jack Kerouac Left Behind

This week's Saturday read is Joyce Johnson's New Yorker Weekend Essay — an intimate first-person memoir by the last living person close to Kerouac during the weeks surrounding On the Road's publication in 1957. Johnson asks what fame takes from a person rather than what it gives, prompted by the recent Christie's auction of the On the Road scroll for $12 million. ~19 min read.

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