Our Picks
Longreads Best of 2016: Under-Recognized Books
We asked our contributors to tell us about a few books they felt deserved more recognition in 2016. Here they are.
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Source: Longreads
Published: Dec. 13, 2016
My President Was Black
A history of the first African American White House, as Coates examines Obama's successes and failures -- and what came next.
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Source: The Atlantic
Published: Dec. 13, 2016
Length: 67 minutes (16875 words)
The End: What Really Happens After You Die?
Explore all your post-death options in a macabre but fascinating (and strangely jaunty) essay that reveals all the post-death details you wanted to know -- and some that you probably didn't.
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Source: Los Angeles Magazine
Published: Sept. 16, 2016
Length: 32 minutes (8196 words)
Searching for Lake Minnetonka and Solid Ground Post-Prince
"I’ve lost family members, and I’ve watched the people closest to me grapple with the deepest, darkest depths of loss. But this was something different; it was massive, but also oddly intimate."
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Published: Dec. 7, 2016
Length: 9 minutes (2380 words)
Longreads Best of 2016: Our 25 Most Popular Exclusives of the Year
Here are the 25 most popular exclusives we published this year.
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Source: Longreads
Published: Dec. 12, 2016
'I Feel Like a Fraud': Confessions of a Broken-Down Domestic Violence Lawyer
After a year of defeats and unforeseen complications, one domestic violence attorney realizes she'd failed to help the abused women she'd set out to protect, and she reassess her objectives.
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Source: Broadly
Published: July 1, 2016
Length: 11 minutes (2831 words)
Longreads Best of 2016: Here Are All of Our No. 1 Story Picks from This Year
All through December, we’ll be featuring Longreads’ Best of 2016. To get you ready, here’s a list of every story that was chosen as No. 1 in our weekly Top 5 email.
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Source: Longreads
Published: Dec. 12, 2016
How to Sleep
A physician's guide to sleep in a stressful age.
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Source: The Atlantic
Published: Dec. 9, 2016
Length: 13 minutes (3374 words)
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
Our top stories of the week, as chosen by the editors at Longreads.
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Source: Longreads
Published: Dec. 9, 2016
Not All There
Gable never knew her mother when she was well or was told that a lobotomy caused her behavior. She only knew the erratic, unpredictable person who drank and raged and had little impulse control. Now a mother herself, Gable tries to make sense of the surgery and accept the person her mother was versus the person she once had been.
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Source: STAT
Published: Oct. 27, 2016
Length: 7 minutes (1988 words)