Longform Best of 2014

We recommended 1,642 articles this year, from 1,364 writers and 417 publishers. Collectively, they were read over 10 million times.

These are our favorites.

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Essays

The author visits the 9/11 Memorial Museum 13 years after his sister’s death.

In the aftermath of rape, a transition from prey to predator.

How Owen came to communicate again.

“I write this with a baseball bat by the bed.”

A grandmother’s tale of the night her first love had to leave town.