Longreads’ Best of WordPress, Vol. 5

10 of our favorite stories from across all of WordPress—featuring Fortune Magazine, Jenny Diski, and The Walrus.

Author: Editors
Source: Longreads
Published: Sep 24, 2014

Robin Williams: 1951-2014

Five interviews with the late actor and comedian.

Author: Editors
Source: Longreads
Published: Aug 11, 2014

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.

Author: Editors
Source: Longreads
Published: Jun 16, 2014

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.

Author: Editors
Source: Longreads
Published: May 1, 2014

The 2014 Pulitzer Prize Winners: A Reading List

Story picks from this year’s winners, including The Washington Post, Colorado Springs Gazette and more.

Author: Editors
Source: Longreads
Published: Apr 14, 2014

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.

Author: Editors
Source: Longreads
Published: Dec 27, 2013

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

Author: Editors
Source: Longreads
Published: Dec 24, 2013

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!

Author: Editors
Source: Longreads
Published: Dec 22, 2013

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.

Author: Editors
Source: Longreads
Published: Dec 1, 2013

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.”

Author: Editors
Source: NPR
Published: Dec 1, 2013