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Best of 2024: The Most Popular Editors’ Picks of the Year
Our readership has spoken! This list compiles the most-viewed stories we recommended in 2024.
‘It’s More Like a Playlist’: Lavinia Spalding on Editing the Best Women’s Travel Writing
The editor of The Best Women’s Travel Writing series on curation, grief and levity, and the stories she hopes to read more of in the future.
Air Jordan Is Finally Deflating
“The brand’s rise and fall, and rise and fall again.”
House Arab
The experience of being an elite magazine’s only Arab staffer after October 7.
A Death at Walmart
“’If you’re not throwing up or passing out, they want you to stay,’ one of Janikka’s former co-workers told me, requesting anonymity.”
My Lunches with Judith Jones, the Queen of Cookbooks
“Lessons learned at the kitchen counter with the editor of Julia Child, Edna Lewis, M. F. K. Fisher, and James Beard.”
How a Script Doctor Found His Own Voice
“For decades, Scott Frank earned up to three hundred thousand dollars a week rewriting other people’s screenplays. Finally, he decided to stop playing ventriloquist.”
