Our year-end collection

The top longreads of the year, selected by our editors.

Editors’ Picks

The Woman Who Spent Five Hundred Days in a Cave

D.T. Max | The New Yorker | January 21, 2024 | 7,430 words

“Beatriz Flamini liked to be alone so much that she decided to live underground—and pursue a world record. The experience was gruelling and surreal.”

Who Controls Your Thoughts?

Katherine Harmon Courage | Nautilus | January 22, 2024 | 2,898 words

“Our minds are being coerced in covert ways.”

A Death at Walmart

Jasper Craven | The New Republic | January 16, 2024 | 5,484 words

“’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.”

Air Jordan Is Finally Deflating

Ross Andersen | The Atlantic | January 19, 2024 | 1,934 words

“The brand’s rise and fall, and rise and fall again.”

How a Script Doctor Found His Own Voice

Patrick Radden Keefe | The New Yorker | December 25, 2023 | 8,860 words

“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.”

Steroid to Heaven

Adrian Nathan West | The Baffler | January 12, 2024 | 3,856 words

“The wide world of anabolics.”

Lost Highway

Emily Gogolak | Harper’s | January 16, 2024 | 6,316 words

“The trials of trucking school.”

An American Girlhood in the Ozempic Era

Lisa Miller | The Cut | December 19, 2023 | 6,783 words

“Adults are divided about giving children new drugs for weight loss. At 13, Maggie Ervie decided to take them.”

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Essays and Features

We Got the Beat

How The Go-Go’s emerged from the Los Angeles punk scene in the late ’70s to become the first and only female band to have a number one album in Beauty and the Beat.

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Reading Lists

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