Our readership has spoken! This list compiles the most-viewed stories we recommended in 2024.
The New Yorker
Posted inFeature
A Year in Reading: Power to the People
Incorrigible, insightful, inspiring: the incredible people of 2024.
Posted inFeature
A Year in Reading: The Wounds That Bind
On the hard-hitting, unforgettable stories of 2024.
Posted inReading List
Eyes on the Prize: A Treasure Hunting Reading List
Every quest holds at its heart a puzzle to solve—and that puzzle can become an obsession.
Posted inEditor's Pick
Lake Tahoe’s Bear Boom
“The vacation hot spot has been overrun by people—whose habits are drawing fast-moving animals with sharp claws and insatiable appetites.”
Posted inCuration
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
Featuring stories by Jeannette Cooperman, Jackson Arn, Andrew Hui, Myriam Gurba, and Simon Hattenstone.
Posted inEditor's Pick
The Painful Pleasures of a Tattoo Convention
“The art endures partly because it’s rooted in the moment—the surrender of one person to another.”
Posted inTop 5
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
Featuring stories from Blake Ellis, Melanie Hicken, Yahya Abou-Ghazala, Audrey Ash, Kyung Lah, Anna-Maja Rappard, Casey Tolan, Lou Robinson, and Byron Manley; Lindsey Liles; David Gauvey Herbert; Laura Trethewey; and Abe Beame.
Posted inEditor's Pick
A Controversial Rare-Book Dealer Tries to Rewrite His Own Ending
“Glenn Horowitz built a fortune selling the archives of writers such as Vladimir Nabokov and Alice Walker. Then a rock star pressed charges.”
Posted inEditor's Pick
The Texan Doctor and the Disappeared Saudi Princesses
“Four daughters in the royal family were kept drugged and imprisoned for almost two decades. A physician who tried to free them speaks out for the first time.”