We asked writers and editors to choose some of their favorite stories of the year in various categories. Here is the best in investigative reporting.
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Longreads Best of 2020: Investigative Reporting
Our top picks for investigative journalism this year.
Posted inStory
Longreads Best of 2020: Business Writing
Our top story picks in business writing this year.
Posted inHighlight, Quote Posts, Quotes
Four Stories from Wuhan
“From the moment my mother died, I haven’t stopped thinking about how I could have saved her.”
Posted inEditor's Pick
I Used to Insist I Didn’t Get Angry. Not Anymore.
An essay examining women’s long-standing conditioning away from owning and expressing anger, instead often sublimating their rage in sadness, which has historically been more acceptable.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Feature, Nonfiction, Story
Out There I Have to Smile
Heather Lanier explores the pressure to perform happiness.
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.
Posted inArts & Culture, Commentary, Nonfiction, Story
Remembering Singer Nancy Wilson
The influential singer’s voice cut across genres and decades, and it will continue to.
Posted inNonfiction
Smoking: A Legal Weed Reading List
The economy, the culture, and the promise of cannabis.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Feature, Story
The Power of a Judith Krantz Sex Scene
A ‘90s romance novel offers a glimpse of queer possibility and illuminates the complications of writing about queer love.
