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.
Trying
On being in a terrible accident and trying to make sense of its narrative.
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.
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.”
No Rest
After a forty-year career in broadcast news, Bill Proctor has spent his retirement investigating a brutal murder from two decades ago.
Manifest Injustice
When all the evidence points away from a suspect, is eyewitness testimony alone enough to convict a man?
The Billionaire Battle in the Bahamas
A years-long quarrel among two billionaire neighbors with homes in the Bahamas.
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.
Longreads Best of 2015: Under-Recognized Stories
Stories that deserved more attention in 2015.
Longreads Best of 2015: Science
Story selections by Carl Zimmer, Justin Nobel, Francie Diep, and Julia Wick.
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