Our annual year-end series begins today.Thank you for your continued support this year long lead We would also like to thank our members for their continued support. With the help of our community, we have published dozens of original Her stories and reading lists by both established and emerging authors, including contributors who have never been published before. Our editors also read and recommend the best nonfiction articles from around the web each week.
Our Best of 2023 collection recognizes writers, journalists, news publications, and literary outlets whose work is important, moving, and memorable. We are pleased to launch this collection containing a list of the 10 most popular essays and press articles.
—Carolyn, Sheri, Krista, Peter, Sayward
Will McCarthy | January 3, 2023 | 12 minutes (3,313 words)
A glimpse of humanity in unexpected corners of the internet.
Seth Simmons | August 17, 2023 | 15 minutes (4,165 words)
Rarely do we see an entire system reflected in one person.creator and executive producer of saturday night live That’s the kind of person I am.
Ann Lagamayo | May 11, 2023 | 4,252 words (15 minutes)
A journalist navigates a world forever changed by a brain injury.
Cassidy Randall | February 16, 2023 | 4,141 words (15 minutes)
I began to accept, if not turn away from the mythical notion that a man would “complete” me, that love for me did not exist. I chose mountains instead.
Harrison Scott Key | October 3, 2023 | 14 minutes (4,055 words)
A surreal train journey between Chicago and New Orleans proves that Amtrak still has a lot to offer. (Does not include speed or food)
Sharanya Deepak | June 22, 2023 | 19 minutes (5,246 words)
About what it means to nourish ourselves and others.
Dan Hernandez | February 28, 2023 | 16 minutes (4,503 words)
What we learned about justice from a car thief, a bank robbery, and a mysterious VHS.
John Paul Scott | July 6, 2023 | 11 minutes (3,069 words)
Reflections on being diagnosed with autism as an adult.
Jessica L. Pavia | February 21, 2023 | 20 min (5,721 words)
What happens when teens develop dangerous emotions?
Kira Homsher | March 14, 2023 | 3,308 words (12 minutes)
Chat rooms taught me everything I needed to know about what real people were like before I grew up and became a part of real people.
You can also browse all year-end collections from 2011 onwards in one place.