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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Arts & Culture

How the midwestern songwriter behind Songs: Ohia and Magnolia Electric Co. descended into dipsomania.

Pimp, brawler, Old Master.

A profile of the internet’s poet, Patricia Lockwood.

On Let’s Be Cops, cop movies, and Ferguson.

An interview with Lorde.