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Longreads Best of 2020: Profiles All Best of Longreads illustrations by Kjell Reigstad. At GQ, Mosi Secret offers a moving portrait of Joe Louis Cole, Larry Barbine, Rev. Joey Crutcher, Selwyn Jones, Jacob Blake III, and Michael Brown Sr., who are the fathers and father figures of Michael Brown, Terence Crutcher, Daniel Prude, Rayshard Brooks, George Floyd, and Jacob Blake — all Black men who were killed by police brutality. Their lives were transformed by the worst kind of news, a blow tha...

Oklahoma Gazette the best newspaper in Oklahoma during its recent 2017 awards gala in Stillwater. Gazette competed in the statewide Oklahoma Pro Chapter contest’s largest newspaper division, earning first place in the Best of the Best / Best Newspaper division; The Oklahoman earned second, and Tulsa World took home third. Journalists often make fun of themselves for being “word people not math people,” but conversations with past Gazette editors and management show this is only the second...

11 New Books We Recommend This Week Dec. 10, 2020 Old worlds spring to life in this week’s recommended titles, from a scientific account of Neanderthal culture to a biography of the seminal American foodie James Beard. There’s a new edition of “The Babur Nama,” the diaries of the 16th-century warlord who founded the Mughal dynasty in India. A look back at the golden age of Egyptology starting in 1822 — which is to say, a look back at archaeologists looking (way) back. A biography of t...