Audience Editor Catherine Cusick, Longreads Head of Fact-Checking Matt Giles, and Senior Editor Kelly Stout share what they've been reading and nominate stories for the Weekly Top 5 Longreads.   

 

This week:

 

[3:20] “Neil Young’s Lonely Quest to Save Music.” (David Samuels, August 20, 2019, The New York Times Magazine) 

[16:58] “The Quickening. ” (Leslie Jamison, September 2019, The Atlantic)

[28:45] “How the Unchecked Power of Judges Is Hurting Poor Texans.” (Neena Satija, August 19, 2019, Texas Monthly)

 

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