Every story we selected for the number one slot in our weekly newsletter, all in one place.
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All the Stories Nominated for the 2022 National Magazine Awards
Consider this your reading list for the next few weeks.
Posted inFeature
Living in an Alive World
Soft eyes, deep listening, and other ways to extend human perception beyond our limits.
Posted inCulture, History, Nonfiction, Reading List
What We Save, What We Destroy: A Reading List on Difficult Heritage
The present we inhabit is shaped by the mixed legacies of the past.
Posted inStory
Ron’s Place
A man’s death revealed his secret masterpiece—his rented home, illegally transformed into a classical villa. What happened next questions how we define art.
Posted inNonfiction
Longreads Best of 2020: All of Our No. 1 Story Picks
Here’s every story that was chosen as No. 1 in our weekly Top 5 email.
Posted inStory
The State We Are In: Neither Here, There, nor in Heaven
On vaccine privilege in America and COVID-19 inequities in India.
Posted inStory
Longreads Best of 2020: Business Writing
Our top story picks in business writing this year.
Posted inReading List
Tangled Up in Bob Stories: A Dylan Reading List
Few musicians have generated as much music and as much study as this Nobel Prize winning singer-songwriter. Dylanology will last hundreds of years.
