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The 2017 National Magazine Award Winners: A Reading List
Congrats to this year’s winners!
Alexa de Paris
Miles Marshall Lewis remembers a love of Prince and Paris.
Ancestor Work In Street Basketball
The basketball court is a place where young black men feel comfortable mourning death, but are there crucial elements missing from their grieving practices?
Three Decades of Cross-Cultural Utopianism in British Music Writing
The history of England’s fertile music press reveals as much about the opinionated English youth who created it as it does the music they covered in the second half of the 20th century.
Twelve Longreads for Aretha Franklin
Aretha Franklin was born March 25, 1942 and died Thursday, August 16, 2018.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
This week, we’re sharing stories from Mark Arax, David Grann, Stephanie Nolen, Eleanor Cummins, and David Marchese.
The Great Online School Scam
Students are performing worse than ever, but private companies are making millions.
Nashville contra Jaws, 1975
In their time, “Jaws” and “Nashville” were regarded as Watergate films, and both were in production as the Watergate disaster played its final act.

