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Best of 2024: The Most Popular Editors’ Picks of the Year
Our readership has spoken! This list compiles the most-viewed stories we recommended in 2024.
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TikTok Is Obsessed With Talking Parrots. It’s Fueling a Global Black Market.
“A yearlong investigation into the African-grey trade reveals a web of poachers, egg smugglers, wealthy businessmen — and multitudes who want a talking bird.”
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House Arab
The experience of being an elite magazine’s only Arab staffer after October 7.
Brendan Fitzgerald
Senior Editor at Longreads Brendan’s writing has appeared at Smithsonian, Literary Hub, and The Morning News, where he wrote the “Press Pause” column. From 2016 through 2022, he was senior editor of Columbia Journalism Review. He is interested in narrative features and essays, particularly those that involve reporting. The subject could be almost anything, so long as […]
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Air Jordan Is Finally Deflating
“The brand’s rise and fall, and rise and fall again.”
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Daniel Arnold’s New Pleasure? Missing the Shot.
“The street photographer speaks about New York City folklore, stepping away from Instagram, and his shifting priorities as an artist.”
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The Strange Saga of Faces of Death
“It scarred countless children—and allegedly left one dead. Many still believe it was all real. Some of it was.”
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A Death at Walmart
“’If you’re not throwing up or passing out, they want you to stay,’ one of Janikka’s former co-workers told me, requesting anonymity.”
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The Man Who Reads Books For a Living (One Every Two Days)
“Clarke Seicher is something much more specific and much rarer: a professional book reader who evaluates literature specifically for screen adaptation.”
