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We bring you an interesting longread each evening to take your mind off the news.

Settle back in a comfy chair and sit back with some of the week’s best longreads.

Running 60 miles would feel like death for most of us. For 21 runners in China, it actually was deadly . Writing for the Wall Street Journal , Wenxin Fan takes a deep dive...

Almost exactly a century ago, a 26-year-old actress/model/designer named Virginia Rappe attended a wild party in a San Francisco hotel and at one point ended up in a bedroom with...

During a job interview with accounting giant Arthur Andersen some 40 years ago, Larry Miller was upfront about his past: as a 16-year-old gang member in Philly, he shot dead another...

"Sometimes, I get the feeling that some years ahead—in 30, 40, 50 years, I don't know how many—they will look at us like monsters. They’ll see us all...

"How many people can say they know a serial killer and everyone that he killed?" It's a chilling question that a resident of the Carter G. Woodson Houses in Brooklyn...

Parton has released more than 60 albums and has amassed dozens of indelible singles. So why has Jolene in particular risen to the top and become her most iconic song?

Get the story behind their second album.

We bring you an interesting longread each evening to take your mind off the news.