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Longreads Best of 2013: Here Are All 49 of Our No. 1 Story Picks From This Year
Every single story that was chosen as No. 1 this year.
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Longreads Guest Pick: Emily Schultz on Roxane Gay and Tin House
Emily Schultz is the co-publisher of Joyland Magazine and the author of The Blondes, forthcoming from St. Martin’s-Thomas Dunne in 2014. She lives in Brooklyn. “In writing about Benjamin Percy’s werewolf novel, Red Moon, Roxane Gay’s review transforms into a fascinating essay with bite. She sums up the challenge authors face when examining the militarization […]
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Transport: On Leaving New York for Rehab in Minnesota
“I learned to drive. But I never liked it.”
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Fallen Dean’s Life, Contradictory to Its Grisly End
On the life and death of Cecilia Chang, a former dean at St. John’s University who was accused of using students as servants and stealing more than $1 million from the college. Chang was also accused of hiring a gunman to kill her husband in 1990: “Mr. Tsai was shot in front of a warehouse […]
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After Sandy, A Great and Complex City Reveals Traumas New and Old
A writer joins her friend Ben Heemskerk, the owner of the Brooklyn bar The Castello Plan, as he organizes a group of community volunteers to help in the hardest hit areas post-Sandy: “On Monday the same thing started all over again. Our numbers were smaller, people were returning to work, and we’d lost our escorts, […]
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The Human Centipede; Or, How to Move to New York
A depressed writer sends a letter to a popular advice columnist: “I couldn’t seem to go above the Twelfth Street location of my class, not to Central Park or the Metropolitan Museum of Art or the New York Public Library. I had no interest in going below Twelfth Street, either. I definitely couldn’t go to […]
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Haunts
[Not single-page] The writer, from Brooklyn, explores the still rapidly changing borough—preparing for the arrival of the Nets and discovering his daughter is a hipster: “Didn’t like to disagree with Adam, whom I love. But these were my kids we were talking about, them and their friends. They weren’t the ones building high-rises in Williamsburg, […]
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I, Nephi
A history of Mormonism and how it has evolved: “Yet how much do specifically Mormon beliefs matter to contemporary Mormons? Brooks’s story, give or take a Nephite or two, could unfold in any fundamentalist community that provides comfort and meaning if you’re prepared to park your critical intelligence in the lot outside the church door. […]
