Audience Editor Catherine Cusick, Editor-in-Chief Mike Dang, and Senior Editor Kelly Stout share what they've been reading and nominate stories for the Weekly Top 5 Longreads.

This week:

[3:37] "Losing The News." (Brent Cunningham, July 23, 2019, Pacific Standard)

[13:05] "The Crane Wife." (CJ Hauser, July 16, 2019, The Paris Review)

[23:59] "The Teens Who Play Dead to Save Lives." (Andy Wright, July 2019, Topic)

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