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Longreads Best of 2020: Investigative Reporting All Best of Longreads illustrations by Kjell Reigstad. The California Sunday Magazine) In July 2012, U.S. Army First Lieutenant Clint Lorance gave an order that killed two Afghan civilians on a motorcycle near an operating base outside of Kandahar, in a volatile region in Afghanistan. Lorance was convicted of murder. The narrative weaved by Sean Hannity and others at Fox News framed Lorance as a war hero; he was pardoned by Donald Trump in November 2019 and served six years of a 20-year sentence. The former Army officer, who had been advised to...

Longreads Best of 2020: Essays All Best of Longreads illustrations by Kjell Reigstad. All through December, we’re featuring Longreads’ Best of 2020. This year, our editors picked and featured hundreds of beautifully written and poignant essays published on the web. Because of the wide range of writing across many topics and themes, it was a challenge to sift through them all over the past several weeks to compile a definitive Best of Essays list. As I shortlisted stories, I realized there could be many different versions of this list, but, in the end, these eight reads really spoke to me...

Longreads Best of 2020: Arts and Culture All Best of Longreads illustrations by Kjell Reigstad. All through December, we’re featuring Longreads’ Best of 2020. In an unprecedented, strange, and chaotic year, we’ve leaned on writers’ reflections and commentaries on the world around us to help us make sense of moments, of our lives. We revisited a wide range of arts and culture stories featured by the team this year and selected eight favorites that resonated with us. The New York Times Magazine) I’ve always loved how Teju Cole observes and moves through our world: a flâneur of moder...

Longreads Best of 2020: Science and Nature All Best of Longreads illustrations by Kjell Reigstad. All through December, we’re featuring Longreads’ Best of 2020. We’ve searched through our archives to find the science and nature stories that take you into ancient forests, through dark swamps, to the bottom of the sea, and right up into the stars.  The New York Times Magazine) Old-growth forests in North America are like something out of a fairytale — huge trees, luminescent with moss, with boughs arching above your head, and “gnarled roots” beneath your feet, “dicing in and out...

Longreads Best of 2020: Writing on COVID-19 All Best of Longreads illustrations by Kjell Reigstad. All through December, we’re featuring Longreads’ Best of 2020. This year, our editors featured many COVID-19 stories from across the web, and below, we’ve narrowed down 11 picks that really resonated with us. This roundup is focused on reported features; we initially included a few pandemic essays in this category, but those will instead appear in the upcoming Best of Essays list.  The Atlantic) The Atlantic‘s coverage of COVID-19 was exceptional this year, and Yong’s deep, thoughtfu...