Sari Botton, Catherine Cusick and Dana Snitzky share what they've been reading and nominate stories for the Weekly Top 5 Longreads.

This week:

Farewell to Payless and its terrible, no good, very cheap, occasionally meaningful shoes at The Outline

The Company That Sells Love to America Had a Dark Secret from The New York Time

The Airbnb Invasion of Barcelona from The New Yorker

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