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Sometimes telling a story is the only way to escape it.

Even with the federal government in chaos, there’s still plenty of opportunity to solve a global problem.

Tom Junod wonders whether Fred Rogers’ unfailing belief in the goodness of others would help us in today’s climate.

“I wondered if Katrina was really a 14-year old boy named Emmett.”

This month’s books newsletter is suspended in a state of anticipation.

How FBI silence and stonewalling forced William and Theresa Reilly to travel to Russia to find out what happened to their son.

Andrew Yang made it news, but we need a better plan.

This is the sound of not really trying.

Either Martin Mull or Frank Zappa or Elvis Costello once said writing about music is as pointless as dancing about architecture. Which doesn’t account for how I’ve danced to all these books.

As a high schooler and new mom, Jane Rubel didn’t consider herself a feminist. She just knew that if husbands and fathers were eligible to play high school basketball, she should have been, too.

I’m reading this book right now called “The Manuscript Found in Saragossa.” It’s a recursive story-within-a-story sort of thing, and it’s giving me nightmares.

Amid badass women and endless stories, a young California writer comes of age in the orange groves as the Golden State comes into its own.

On the return of ‘Veronica Mars’ and the power of the solitary woman.

This month’s books newsletter is pretty chatty for a topic that’s supposedly the pastime of introverts!

MTV’s “The Hills” was a memorable reality show with an even more memorable theme song.

Five years after the Beatles disbanded, a period fueled by intense acrimony, Lennon and McCartney set aside their differences and got back together one more time. Inside the rollicking atmosphere of that May 1974 recording session.

“With great abundance comes great discipline.”

Recovering addicts are fighting the opioid epidemic.

Both franchises led the NBA’s international expansion, and to stand out in the hockey-crazed country, the teams would need impressive logos and colorways to break through, but no one expected a red raptor or a grizzly bear outlined in Haida trim.

One woman quits coloring her gray hair and investigates the human and environmental costs of this contentious female beauty standard.

Billie Jean King once tried to find a sustainable business model for feminist sports coverage. Then women’s fitness tried to revive the swimsuit model.

Before he founded High Times, Tom Forcade was a renegade journalist willing to throw a pie—or a lawsuit—in the face of anyone restricting his constitutional freedoms.

Digital labor is valuable even when we do it for free. Should we get paid?

When art is a should or a must or a have to, when we turn it into a chore, it is the opposite of what art is supposed to be.

In Xi Jinping’s China, “tens of thousands of people have disappeared into the maw of the police state,” including global movie star Fan Bingbing.

Decades after a childhood sexual assault, Saidee Sonnenberg tries to make sense of what happened.

Longreads turns 10 in two months! @Longreads is an Aries?!

The saxophone colossus recorded two concerts at the same venue fifty years apart. Only one recording emerged from the vault.

“I want someone to remember even just one of my songs, especially when a night is too silent, and that old gray curls back around me like a shroud, making me wonder, again, if any song of mine will be worth recalling at all.”

We asked writers and editors to choose some of their favorite stories of the year in various categories. Here is the best in food writing.