We asked a few writers and editors to choose some of their favorite stories of the year in various categories. Here, the best in sports writing.
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Posted inCurrent Events, Nonfiction, Story
Los mutilados y los desaparecidos
Una visita al único refugio en México para inmigrantes que han sido mutilados a lo largo de la ruta migratoria.
Posted inBlog Post, Nonfiction, Top 5
A Heart-Shaped Life: Twelve Ways of Looking at Amy Krouse Rosenthal
The author, speaker, and performance artist was far more than her final, heartbreaking Modern Love column.
Posted inCurrent Events, Nonfiction, Sports
‘I Am Not a Role Model’ and the Resurgence of Athlete Activism
More athletes are publicly taking a political stance, echoing activists who came before them.
Posted inCurrent Events, investigations, Nonfiction
A Teen and a Toy Gun
This is the story of the last day of 17-year-old Quanice Hayes’s life. It involves a police department that says they have no good way of deciphering between real guns and fake ones, and a family still searching for answers.
Posted inCurrent Events, investigations, Nonfiction, Story
A Teen and a Toy Gun
This is the story of the last day of 17-year-old Quanice Hayes’s life. It involves a police department that says they have no good way of deciphering between real guns and fake ones, and a family still searching for answers.
Posted inBlog Post, Current Events, Reading List
A Transgender-Military Reading List
Thousands of people in the U.S.’s all-volunteer military are transgender.
Posted inMedia, Nonfiction, Science & Nature, Story
In 1975, Newsweek Predicted A New Ice Age. We’re Still Living with the Consequences.
All climate change deniers needed was one article to cast doubt on the science of global warming.
Posted inNonfiction, Reading List
Longreads Best of 2016: Arts & Culture Writing
We asked a few writers and editors to choose some of their favorite stories of the year in various categories. Here, the best in arts and culture writing.
Posted inBooks, Nonfiction, Story
Living Differently: How the Feminist Utopia Is Something You Have to Be Doing Now
Lynne Segal points out that if the dystopia is already here, then the utopia must be here too.
