We asked writers and editors to choose some of their favorite stories of the year in various categories. Here is the best in crime reporting.
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From One Friendship, Lessons on Life, Death, AIDS, and Childlessness
S. Kirk Walsh reflects on her friendship with a gay man battling AIDS — how he taught her to grieve her own infertility, and live life more fully.
The Itch and the Touch
Families are complicated. Caring for Grandpa John was even more so.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week—featuring New York magazine, Gawker, Virginia Hughes, Grantland, Michigan Quarterly Review, fiction from The New Yorker and a guest pick by Jeremy Kressmann.
