We asked writers and editors to choose some of their favorite stories of the year in various categories. Here is the best in local reporting.
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Posted inCurrent Events, Essays & Criticism, Story
Maybe We Can Make a Circle
Nicole Piasecki writes a letter to the wife of the shooter who killed her father. Part two of a three-part series on gun violence.
Posted inEditor's Pick, Essays & Criticism, Nonfiction
My Abuser’s Gender Made Me Doubt My Experience
After an assault, Caroline Catlin questions the safety of queerness.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Story
My Abuser’s Gender Made Me Doubt My Experience
After an assault, Caroline Catlin questions the safety of queerness.
Posted inNonfiction, Quotes
Two Scoops of Ice Cream for Him, One for You
Donald Trump led the editors of TIME through an evening at the White House that was both typical and strange.
Posted inNonfiction
Longreads Best of 2017: All of Our No. 1 Story Picks
Here’s every story that was chosen as No. 1 in our weekly Top 5 email.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Story
To Be Clean
A tender relationship with a fellow exotic dancer shows Natassja Schiel how to love her sister, a recovering addict.
Posted inArts & Culture, Unapologetic Women
The Gossip Columnist Who Became the News
Liz Smith looks back at her role in the Trump divorce.
Posted inUncategorized
Anxiety, Betrayal, and Limbo: A DACA Reading List
It was an act that allowed generation to come out as documented. Now the government that once helped them now have the tools to do harm.
Posted inNonfiction, Story
Finding True North
Thousands of Haitians who fled the United States on foot last summer have started very different lives in Canada.
