An incomplete list of stories I adore

Reporting
The Innocent Man Parts 1  & 2  by Pamela Colloff
How This Con Man’s Wild Testimony Sent Dozens to Jail, and 4 to Death Row by Pamela Colloff
The Invisible Army by Sarah Stillman
The Migrant Workers Who Follow Climate Disasters by Sarah Stillman
The Uncounted by Azmat Khan & Anand Gopal
The Other Afghan Women by Anand Gopal
How Hospice Became a For-Profit Hustle by Ava Kofman
Inside the Secret World of Penis Enlargement by Ava Kofman
A Pro-Trump Militant Group has Recruited Thousands of Police, Soldiers, and Veterans by Mike Giglio
Jared Kushner’s Other Real Estate Empire in Baltimore by Alec McGillis
Tethered to the Machine by Lizzie Presser
The Dispossessed by Lizzie Presser
Below Deck by Lizzie Presser
Surviving the Crackdown in Xinjiang by Raffi Khatchadourian
Hannah and Andrew by Pamela Colloff
The Murders at the Lake by Michael Hall
Johnson & Johnson and a New War on Consumer Protection by Casey Cep
The Road to Damascus by Sonia Smith
Remembering Satan by Lawrence Wright
The Desperate Journey of a Trafficked Girl by Ben Taub
The Family that Built an Empire of Pain by Patrick Radden Keefe
They Studied Dishonesty. Was Their Work a Lie? by Gideon Lewis-Kraus
Notes from Underground by David Remnick

Embedded reporting
My Four Months as a Private Prison Guard by Shane Bauer
“When can we really rest?” by Nadja Drost
Guarding Sing Sing by Ted Conover
Choosing a School for my Daughter in a Segregated City by Nikole Hannah-Jones
Forced Out excerpt of Evicted in the New Yorker

Issue
The Really Big One by Kathryn Schulz
The Insect Apocalypse is Here by Brooke Jarvis
How to Hide $400 Million by Nick Confessore
The New American Homeless by Brian Goldstone
The Next Plague is Coming. Is America Ready? by Ed Yong
Kickstart my Heart by Molly Young
Generation Adderall by Casey Schwartz
Drowned in a Stream of Prescriptions by Alan Schwartz
All My Friends Are Dead by Peter Moskowitz
The Plague Year by Lawrence Wright
“I Have No Choice but to Keep Looking” by Jennifer Percy

Place
The Churn by Katherine Boo
Kingdom from Dust by Mark Arax 
Floodlines (Podcast chapters 1-8)
Private Dreams and Public Ideals by Nathan Heller
Uncanny Valley by Anna Wiener
Aristocrat Inc. by Natalie So

Profile
The Moods of Ernest Hemingway by Lillian Ross
The Weirdly Enduring Appeal of Weird Al Yankovic by Sam Anderson 
Matthew Wong’s Life in Light and Shadow by Raffi Khatchadourian
In the Now: Where Karl Lagerfeld lives. by John Colapinto 
Trump Solo by Mark Singer
Panty Raid by Noreen Malone 
Marilynne Robinson’s Essential American Stories by Casey Cep
A Most American Terrorist by Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah 
How Goop’s Haters Made Gwyneth Paltrow’s Company Worth $250 Million by Taffy Brodesser-Akner
Nobody’s Looking at You by Janet Malcolm
The Perfect Wife by Ariel Levy 
Jeremy Strong Doesn’t Get the Joke by Michael Schulman
If He Hollers Let Him Go by Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah
Lena Dunham Comes to terms with Herself by Allison Davis
George Clooney When We Need Him Most by Zach Baron
How do you like it now, Gentlemen? The Moods of Ernest Hemingway by Lillian Ross
What Joe Biden Can’t Bring Himself to Say by John Hendrickson

Storytelling
The Contestant by Daniel Alarcon
Still Life by Skip Hollandsworth
Child of a Lesser God by Skip Hollandsworth
Your Son is Deceased by Rachel Aviv
The Mark of a Masterpiece by David Grann
Where the Bodies are Buried by Patrick Radden Keefe 
How the Elderly Lose Their Rights by Rachel Aviv
The Murders at the Lake by Michael Hall

Argument
The Case for Reparations by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Why Poverty Persists in America by Mathew Desmond

Fun
My Crowd by Bill Wasik
The Chameleon by David Grann
Bad Art Friend by Bob Kolker
A Better Brew by Burkhard Bilger
House Perfect by Lauren Collins
Just Desserts by Katy Vine
The Positively True Adventures of the Kilgore Rangerette–Kidnapping Mom by Katy Vine
The Spy Who Called Me by Nick Casey
The Architect Who Became a Diamond by Alice Gregory
What is Poetry by Jake Silverstein
Mississippi Drift by Matthew Power
Worst Roommate Ever by William Brennan
How Anna Delvey tricked New York’s Party People by Jessica Dressler

Memoir/Essay
The High is Always the Pain and the Pain Is Always the High by Jay Caspian Kang
My Father Vanished When I Was 7. The Mystery Made Me Who I Am by Nicholas Casey
Toastmaster by Rachel Aviv
The Fourth State of Matter by Jo Ann Beard
On Self-Respect by Joan Didion
When Things Go Missing by Kathryn Schulz
You Blow My Mind. Hey Mickey! by John Jeremiah Sullivan
The Man Called Fran by John Jeremiah Sullivan
Notes From Prince Harry’s Ghostwriter by J.R. Moehringer
Making House: Notes on Domesticity by Rachel Cusk