Here’s a selection of profiles that resonated with us this year.
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Longreads Best of 2020: Business Writing
Our top story picks in business writing this year.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Feature, Sports, Story, Uncategorized
An Audience of Athletes: The Rise and Fall of Feminist Sports
Billie Jean King once tried to find a sustainable business model for feminist sports coverage. Then women’s fitness tried to revive the swimsuit model.
Posted inQuotes
Selling Fame
With the Cameo app, you can buy a video message from a celebrity — increasing in popularity since COVID-19, will this way of communicating become the new norm?
Posted inNonfiction
Longreads Best of 2022: All of Our No. 1 Story Picks
All the stories we’ve selected as number one in our weekly Top 5 newsletter.
Posted inEditor's Pick
On the Mat We’re Briefly Perfect: On Netflix’s ‘Cheer’
Junior college is two years, but Daytona is forever. Lovely art criticism from Arielle Zibrak: “In all aspects of the sport, self sacrifice is the chief tenet — and the best way, in fact, of extending one’s life beyond the limits of time.”
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Highlight, Nonfiction, Reading List, Story
Twenty Years Later: A 9/11 Reading List
Six stories on the immediate and ongoing aftermath of the attacks that took place on September 11th, 2001.
Posted inNonfiction
I Entered the World’s Longest, Loneliest Horse Race on a Whim, and I Won
Somehow, implausibly, against all the odds, I became the youngest person and first woman ever to win the Mongol Derby. What made me so sure I was ready, when I was totally unprepared?
Posted inNonfiction
The 25 Most Popular Longreads Exclusives of 2020
The original reporting, personal essays, columns, and collaborations that were our most-read stories of the year.
Posted inHighlight, Quote Posts, Quotes, Sports
In Death, A Champion for Life Well Lived
“She no longer feared death because she could hold it in her hands at any time.”
