All the stories we’ve selected as number five in our weekly Top 5 newsletter.
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Judge a Book Not By its Gender
Lisa Whittington-Hill suggests there’s a distinct gender bias in celebrity memoirs. Where female celebrities are expected to expose all, male writers get to write about whatever they want.
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Plotting Out Structure and Writing Out Heroes: A Chat With the Writer and Editor Behind The Atavist’s New Issue
In this excerpt from The Creative Nonfiction Podcast, host Brendan O’Meara talks to Katia Savchuk and Atavist editor-in-chief Seyward Darby about their work on “A Crime Beyond Belief.”
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Longreads Best of 2020: Science and Nature
Our top picks in science and nature stories for 2020.
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Editor’s Roundtable: Manufactured to Go Viral (Podcast)
Longreads editors discuss stories in Pacific Standard, The Paris Review, and Topic.
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How Refugees Die
Wars and heightened border security have created a humanitarian crisis in the Mediterranean.
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Longreads Best of 2020: Business Writing
Our top story picks in business writing this year.
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Longreads Best of 2020: Investigative Reporting
Our top picks for investigative journalism this year.
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Longreads Best of 2020: Writing on COVID-19
Our top story picks in COVID-19 reporting this year.
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Editor’s Roundtable: All Things Being Unequal (Podcast)
Longreads editors discuss stories in The Cut, Columbia Review of Journalism, The New York Times, and Pacific Standard.
