Some of Our Favorite Longreads of 2020
It was a brutal year. Take a breath and enjoy some of our best in-depth stories.
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We weren’t just bingeing Netflix in this pandemic-blighted year. We were reading—voraciously. Yes, in 2020 WIRED readers flocked to long-form stories about the coronavirus disaster. But they also devoured in-depth articles about everything from alleged poker cheats to digital blackface to the finer points of eluding a hungry dinosaur.
So, on the off-chance that you missed any of these gems, we’re here to suggest a holiday reading list of our favorites from the past year. It’s an admittedly subjective compilation, fueled by the picks of WIRED editors, reader favorites, and, yes, a few of my own darlings.
Enjoy some reading. Then you can go back to Netflix.
Mark Robinson focuses on longform narratives and investigative features online and in print. In 2016 and 2017 he was the editor in chief of EPIC magazine, a journalism and film and TV production startup that specializes in publishing longform nonfiction. Before that he spent more than a decade at WIRED, ... Read More
