- Baldwin to Sontag and Mailer: The 10 greatest essays since 1950.
- The year in photos, so far.
- Moses and whether he could have parted the Red Sea without God’s help.
- Catherine the Great to My Friend, Dahmer: the year’s best unproduced screenplays
- The Times‘ 10 Best Books of 2014.
- Lila, Boyhood, and Transparency: If everybody basically agrees, why are there so many best-of lists for 2014?
- The Big Lebowski, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, and Rio Bravo among the films added to the National Film Registry in 2014.
- A roll-call of notable 2014 obituaries.
- Alamo Drafthouse stands up for, well, freedom.
- The Ramones and other great Christmas songs.
- Bill O’Reilly does his darn best to ruin another holiday season.
- Chris Rock: “If poor people knew how rich rich people are, there would be riots in the streets.“
- Print and read, bonus year-end edition: Daniel Pearl’s last story, smoking pot with David Brooks, and other selections from Longread’s best stories of 2014.
Chris Barsanti 