The personal essays, original reporting, and collaborations that were our most-read stories of the year.
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Longreads Best of 2017: Investigative Reporting
We asked writers and editors to choose some of their favorite stories of the year in various categories. Here is the best in investigative reporting.
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We’re All Alabama Now
Alabama, it turns out, isn’t an American outlier after all.
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My Secondhand Lonely
Raised by a single, independent mother, one young woman struggles with her familial inheritance and the relationship between self-sufficiency and social isolation.
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Suburbanizing Survivalism
Inside the booming business of survival food.
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I Think, Therefore I Am Getting the Goddamned Epidural
On midwives, metaphysics, and intensely natural births.
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Radhika Jones, Meet Condescending and Nasty
I mean, Condé Nast. Meet Condé Nast.
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Living in the Aftershock of Someone Else’s Earthquake
A personal essay in which, a decade after her mother’s death, Ashley Abramson reflects on being raised by a parent addicted to opioids.
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The Problem of Pain
Pain is indeed inherited, but treating it as an affliction need not be handed down from generation to generation.
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Searching for Poet Frank Stanford
Traveling to Arkansas to search for mythic poet Frank Stanford.