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Longreads Best of 2018: Business Writing
We asked writers and editors to choose some of their favorite stories of the year in various categories. Here is the best in business writing.
Reimagining Harper Lee’s Lost True Crime Novel: An Interview with Casey Cep
“Somewhere along the way it became very clear to me that I was writing the book she never would.”
The Unreliable Reader
In Esmé Weijun Wang’s book of personal essays, “The Collected Schizophrenias,” it’s the reader, not the writer, who is an unreliable narrator.
‘There’s Virtually No Conversation In Chicago … About the Aftershocks of the Violence.’
In “An American Summer,” journalist Alex Kotlowitz tries to report on gun deaths on Chicago’s South Side with the same attention to survivors, anniversaries, and aftershocks that is paid to mass shootings.
When to (Not) Have Kids
At a bleak moment in human history, these essays explore the case for not reproducing.
Russia’s House of Shadows
Moscow’s House on the Embankment, built to house the Soviet élite, became purge central. They were the new nobility, until suddenly they weren’t.
‘Unfettered Glamour’: The Legendary Career of André Leon Talley
The highs and lows of André Leon Talley’s important, trailblazing career are traced in a new documentary about his life.
Benoit Paire, Tennis Solitaire
Thessaly La Force hangs out with the lonesome, racquet-smashing Frenchman.
Harvey Weinstein’s Failed Attempt to Hire Private Eyes to Silence His Accusers
Weinstein hired private investigators who used fake names to dig up dirt on his accusers.
