Here Are All 49 of Our No. 1 Story Picks From This Year

The Most Surprising Piece of Cultural Criticism of the Year

Favorite New Writer Discovery

My Favorite Stories About Taxes (and Twist-Ties)

The Best Sentence I Read This Year

Best Life Lessons from Lindsay Lohan in a Feature Story

Most Urgent Story, Award for Outstanding Reporting

Best Listicle By Another Name

Monica Potts on the Homeless Families of 'The Weeklies'

Janet Reitman on Her Rolling Stone Cover Story, 'Jahar's World'

The Best Story About Storytelling

The Best Sentence I Read This Year

'The Poorest Rich Kids in the World'

My Favorite New Publisher Discovery

Story That Shouldn't Be Overlooked

Best Old Story That I Didn't Read Until This Year

New Questions About a Legendary Tennis Match

Award for Outstanding Reporting

22 Outstanding Book Chapters We Featured This Year

Here Is What Happens After You Write a New York Times Story About Lindsay Lohan

The 10 Stories We Couldn't Stop Thinking About