Every piece we selected as our top story of the week in 2023, all in one place.
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Best of 2024: All Our Number Five Story Picks
Every story that appeared in the number five slot in our Weekly Top 5, all in one place.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Story
Guns and Marriage
Simone Gorrindo struggles to make peace with the violence that puts food on her table.
Posted inNonfiction
Longreads Best of 2019: All of Our No. 1 Story Picks
Our top picks of the year, all in one place.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books, Culture, Essays & Criticism, Feature, profile, Story, Writing
Beautiful Women, Ugly Scenes: On Novelist Nettie Jones and the Madness of ‘Fish Tales’
Edited by Toni Morrison, the 1983 novel ‘Fish Tales’ by Nettie Jones was supposed to set the literary world on fire. It didn’t.
Posted inCurrent Events, Nonfiction, Story
A Vor Never Sleeps
The shadowy world of Russian organized crime in America.
Posted inNonfiction
Longreads Best of 2017: Investigative Reporting on Sexual Misconduct
Investigations into sexual misconduct perpetrated by powerful men across several industries had the biggest impact in 2017.
