Head of Audience Catherine Cusick, Editor-in-Chief Mike Dang, and Essays Editor Sari Botton share what they've been reading and nominate stories for the Weekly Top 5 Longreads.

This week:

[0:51] "Why You Never See Your Friends Anymore." (Judith Shulevitz, November 2019, The Atlantic)

[9:21] "Ronan Farrow Depicts a Chilling Cover-up at NBC." (Rebecca Traister, October 11, 2019, The Cut)

[16:16] "The 'Glass Floor' Is Keeping America's Richest Idiots At The Top." (Michael Hobbes, October 13, 2019, HuffPost)

*correction: @19:15 — A reference to One Night at Mount Sinai is mis-attributed to Rebecca Traister, rather than Lisa Miller.

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