Starting a thread to house longform journalism/features/profile recommendations (please reply with your own & feed my addiction https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🙏🏻" title="Folded hands (light skin tone)" aria-label="Emoji: Folded hands (light skin tone)">):

Gotta start with the one that got me into the genre in the first place, that made me see the potential of journalism as storytelling, that was so good that I gasped and cried by the end of it: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2017/11/30/world/asia/japan-lonely-deaths-the-end.amp.html">https://www.google.com/amp/s/www...

https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="👆🏻" title="Up pointing backhand index (light skin tone)" aria-label="Emoji: Up pointing backhand index (light skin tone)"> a lightbulb went off reading this — the storytelling made the reporting better, and the reporting made the storytelling better. Suddenly, I cared about the inverted population pyramid in Japan. Like, REALLY cared. The pyramid was now human.
The power of longform *chefs kiss*

This was the best portrayal of the effects of PTSD and trauma I’ve read, no forcing a redemptive overcoming arc onto the survivor. Its power is in his choice of details: https://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/national/2015/12/05/after-a-mass-shooting-a-survivors-life/">https://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/nation...

This was really good for my soul during this pandemic, and notable for his well-executed use of voice shift to match the themes (something that doesn’t always land) : https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/tv/a27134/can-you-say-hero-esq1198/">https://www.esquire.com/entertain...

Expanding this thread to include personal essays because good lord, this: https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2019/07/16/the-crane-wife/">https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2019...