r/Longreads↗
Long reads
A place for longform articles and texts.
92k subscribers201 posts / mo in Sep 2026 (incl. ~4% by known bots)123 authors / mosince 2010
r/Longreads has 92k members (+19% over the last 12 months). It gets about 201 posts a month from 123 people. Top topics: Stolen Art, AI Dangers & Ethics and Witches and Fallen Kingdoms.
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Share of the subreddit's posts
- Stolen Art<0.1%
- AI Dangers & Ethics<0.1%
- Witches and Fallen Kingdoms<0.1%
- Drug Overdose Crisis<0.1%
- Reading & Books<0.1%
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- The New Yorker
- The Atlantic
- Substack
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