FAV LONGFORM ARTICLES 2022
Sorry i’m posting this 3 months late but here are some of my favorite longform journalism and essays published in 2022. (in no particular order, *= best of the best) (2021)
Humboldt Broncos Bus Crash: Two Victims’ Fathers - Mitch Moxley (Esquire)*
The Woman Who Killed Roe - Kerry Howley (The Cut)
The Secret History of the Internet’s Funniest Buzzer-Beater - Brian Feldman (Defector)*
Has The Zodiac Killer Mystery Been Solved (Again)? - Aaron Gell (Los Angeles Magazine)
The Turbulent Brain - Morten L. Kringelback & Gustavo Deco (Aeon)
The Haves and the Have-Yachts - Evan Asnos (The New Yorker)
Human Trafficking’s Newest Abuse: Forcing Victims Into Cyberscamming - Cezary Podkul & Cindy Liu (ProPublica)*
American Rasputin - Jennifer Senior (The Atlantic)
Children in the Garden: On Life at a 3,100-Mile Race - Devin Kelly (Longreads)
Building the First Long-Distance Hiking Trail in Kurdistan - Ben Mauk (The New York Times Magazine)
The Great American Antler Boom - Abe Streep (The New Yorker)
Safer Than Childbirth - Tamara Dean (The American Scholar)
From Aardvark to Woke: Inside the Oxford English Dictionary - Pippa Bailey (The New Statesman)*
Why We Take Animal Voyages - Sam Anderson (The New York Times Magazine)
The Demon River - J. B. MacKinnon (Hakai Institute)
Sex, Scandal, and Sisterhood: Fifty Years of the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders - Sarah Hepola (Texas Monthly)
The Weird, Analog Delights of Foley Sound Effects - Anna Wiener (The New Yorker)
The Betrayal: Joe Biden’s Saigon - George Packer (The Atlantic)
The Schoharie Limo Crash and the FBI Informant Behind It - Ben Ryder Howe (Intelligencer)*
Why Was Joshua Held for More than Two Years for Someone Else’s Crimes? - Robert Kolker (The New York Times Magazine)
The Internet Is Made of Demons - Sam Kriss (Damage)
How The Liver King Built an Empire by Eating Raw Organ Meat - Madeleine Aggeler (GQ)
Girl Power Gets Sober - Katie Heaney (The Cut)
Kate Price Remembers Something Terrible - Janelle Nanos (The Boston Globe Magazine)*
The Man Who Paid for America’s Fear - Jason Fagone (San Francisco Chronicle)
