Longreads’ Best of WordPress, Vol. 5
10 of our favorite stories from across all of WordPress—featuring Fortune Magazine, Jenny Diski, and The Walrus.
Robin Williams: 1951-2014
Five interviews with the late actor and comedian.
Making the Magazine: A Reading List
Magazine nerds, here we go: A starter collection of 27 behind-the-scenes stories from some of your most beloved magazines, including The New Yorker, Time, Entertainment Weekly, Cosmopolitan, Vanity Fair and the New York Review of Books, plus now-defunct publications like Might, George, Sassy and Wigwag.
The 2014 National Magazine Award Winners: A Reading List
A collection of stories from Thursday night’s awards, including The New Yorker, Time and National Geographic.
The 2014 Pulitzer Prize Winners: A Reading List
Story picks from this year’s winners, including The Washington Post, Colorado Springs Gazette and more.
Longreads Best of 2013: The 10 Stories We Couldn’t Stop Thinking About
For four years now, the Longreads community has celebrated the best storytelling on the web. Thanks for all of your contributions, and special thanks to Longreads Members for supporting this service. We couldn’t keep going without your funding, so join us today.
Earlier this week we posted every No. 1 story from our weekly email this year, in addition to all of the outstanding picks from our Best of 2013 series. Here are 10 stories that we couldn’t stop thinking about.
See you in 2014.
Longreads Best of 2013: 22 Outstanding Book Chapters We Featured This Year
This year we featured not only the best stories from the web, but also great chapters from new and classic books. Here’s a complete guide to every book chapter we featured this year, both for free and for Longreads Members
Longreads Best of 2013: Here Are All 49 of Our No. 1 Story Picks From This Year
Every week, Longreads sends out an email with our Top 5 story picks—so here it is, every single story that was chosen as No. 1 this year. If you like these, you can sign up to receive our free Top 5 email every Friday.
Happy holidays!
Longreads Best of 2013: Open Thread
We’re kicking off the Longreads Best of 2013 series tomorrow—and we want your help.
In the comments below, share links to your favorite nonfiction and fiction stories, or your favorite books, writers and publishers of the year. We’ll keep this thread open all through December.
Planet Money Makes a T-Shirt
A multimedia report on how the global economy works, from the perspective of the people making a T-shirt for NPR:
In the case of the Planet Money T-shirt, the buyer is Jockey. The company told us that the pattern of pulling out when wages rise may be coming to an end for now, because there’s no country that’s ready to replace Bangladesh as the cheapest place in the world to make clothes.
Wages in Bangladesh are going to rise, Marion Smith, a senior vice president at Jockey, told us. “That’s good news from a humanitarian point of view.”