It’s been a busy year: Here are some noteworthy pieces that may have passed you by.
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Best of 2025: All Our Number Five Story Picks
Every story we selected for the number five slot in our weekly newsletter, in a handy digest.
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Sliding into the Future: A Reading List on Snowsports
Pointless elitism, or an urgent dress rehearsal for the climate crisis?
Posted inAudio, Feature, Story
Plotting Out Structure and Writing Out Heroes: A Chat With the Writer and Editor Behind The Atavist’s New Issue
In this excerpt from The Creative Nonfiction Podcast, host Brendan O’Meara talks to Katia Savchuk and Atavist editor-in-chief Seyward Darby about their work on “A Crime Beyond Belief.”
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Longreads Best of 2021: All of Our No. 1 Story Picks
Here’s every story that was chosen as No. 1 in our weekly Top 5 email.
Posted inCommentary, Current Events, Discussions, Feature, Podcasts, The Atavist Magazine
Don’t Let Old Wounds Die Out
Our last editors’ roundtable of the season, with guest Nick Chrastil.
Posted inNonfiction
The Strange and Dangerous World of America’s Big Cat People
A headline-grabbing murder-for-hire plot helped expose the dark side of exotic animal ownership in the U.S. Is there now enough momentum to reform the industry?
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Stories to Read in 2019
A dozen exceptional stories from 2018 that deserve our ongoing attention.
Posted inArts & Culture, Reading List
Our Zombies, Ourselves: An Undead Reading List
The zombie movie is more than an easy scare. It’s also become an essential lens through which we can view society.
Posted inNonfiction
It’s Like That: The Makings of a Hip-Hop Writer
Hip-hop was a different kind of music that needed a different kind of writer to cover it. This is how Michael A. Gonzales came of age in a time when Black writers began breaking the white ceiling.
