Jerry Tarkanian and Walter Byers: Adversaries Who Left Mark on N.C.A.A.

In the New York Times, Joe Nocera looks back at the battle between college basketball coaching great Jerry Tarkanian and former NCAA executive director Walter Byers, who both died in 2015.

Author: Joe Nocera
Published: Dec 25, 2015
Length: 7 minutes (1,997 words)

Trying

On being in a terrible accident and trying to make sense of its narrative.

Source: The Awl
Published: Dec 29, 2015
Length: 6 minutes (1,717 words)

The Story of Vicente, Who Murdered His Mother, His Father, and His Sister

The following excerpt appears courtesy of Verso Books. The passage—the book’s opening chapter—details a single terrible crime, which Rodriguez Nieto uses as an inroad to discussing Juárez’s emergent culture of crime.

Source: Verso Books
Published: Dec 29, 2015
Length: 19 minutes (4,857 words)

No Offense

“I can’t think of an obligation that feminism ought to have lifted faster than the obligation that a woman construct her life around agreement—and yet, this year, it seems like this is exactly what many people understand feminism, within its own sphere, to be.”

Source: Jezebel
Published: Dec 29, 2015
Length: 17 minutes (4,285 words)

No Rest

After a forty-year career in broadcast news, Bill Proctor has spent his retirement investigating a brutal murder from two decades ago.

Source: BBC
Published: Dec 21, 2015
Length: 18 minutes (4,616 words)

Manifest Injustice

When all the evidence points away from a suspect, is eyewitness testimony alone enough to convict a man?

Published: Dec 18, 2015
Length: 32 minutes (8,120 words)

The Billionaire Battle in the Bahamas

A years-long quarrel among two billionaire neighbors with homes in the Bahamas.

Source: Vanity Fair
Published: Dec 6, 2015
Length: 25 minutes (6,475 words)

Living With Depression: A Reading List

“We read to know that we are not alone,” so sayeth C.S. Lewis, via William Nicholson. I want you to know that this holiday season, you are not alone. A new reading list from Emily Perper.

Source: Longreads
Published: Dec 20, 2015

Longreads Best of 2015: Under-Recognized Stories

Stories that deserved more attention in 2015.

Author: Editors
Source: Longreads
Published: Dec 18, 2015

Longreads Best of 2015: Science

Story selections by Carl Zimmer, Justin Nobel, Francie Diep, and Julia Wick.

Author: Editors
Source: Longreads
Published: Dec 18, 2015