A small sampling of standout essays published this year.
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‘Hand to hand to hand’: How Coronavirus Spread Aboard the Diamond Princess
“…the ship…provided the world’s best data set on the virus, confirming crucial facts about how the disease spread, especially through asymptomatic carriers.”
Posted inEditor's Pick
He Never Intended To Become A Political Dissident, But Then He Started Beating Up Tai Chi Masters
He’s a so-so MMA fighter with political views that are moderate at best. But since he’s outspoken on the internet — most recently, about Hong Kong — he’s become one of China’s best-known dissidents.
Posted inHighlight, Quote Posts, Quotes, Science & Nature
How A Nonagenarian Insists We Can Avoid The Age of Loneliness
“He frames what we don’t know about our planet and what lives on it as a thrilling mystery, an opportunity to learn rather than a problem too daunting or, worse, too late to confront.”
Posted inNonfiction
Doctors Without Patients: The Eritrean Physicians Stuck in American Licensing Limbo
“What was the whole point of your training if you cannot do something, even in a pandemic?”
Posted inReading List
This Week In Books: A ‘Melancholia’ or ‘Take Shelter’ Situation
I will become power-mad and lock my boyfriend inside forever!
Posted inEditor's Pick
Camera Above the Classroom
Hoping to use AI to boost its education system, China’s government has installed facial recognition technology in pilot schools to monitor its students in the classroom.
Posted inNonfiction
Longreads Best of 2019: Food Writing
We asked writers and editors to choose some of their favorite stories of the year in various categories. Here is the best in food writing.
Posted inNonfiction, Top 5
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
This week, we’re sharing stories from Sandra Sidi, Lena Solow, Aubrey Hirsch, Noelle Mateer, and Amanda Hess.
Posted inStory
Longreads Best of 2020: Business Writing
Our top story picks in business writing this year.
