Some Favorite Longreads From the New Yorker Archive.

The New Yorker asked me for a favorite Longread from their archive, along with Dwight Garner, Maud Newton, Sloane Crosley and Laura Miller. It was an almost overwhelming task but I immediately thought of Joan Didion’s electric “Letter from Lakewood”.

If you’re going to get a subscription and dip into the archives, especially via iPad (highly recommended–the iPad/tablet version of the magazine is excellent), here are some more suggestions.

The Tiny Feast by Chris Adrian
The Dinner Party by Joshua Ferris
Something That Needs Nothing by Miranda July
Alone by Yiyun Li
The Silent Woman by Janet Malcolm
The Custodian, by Deborah Eisenberg
Nilda by Junot Diaz
Cinnamon Skin by Edmund White
Lesbian Nation by Ariel Levy
Reverting to a Wild State by Justin Torres

And, of course, the 114 stories Mavis Gallant has published there, and the excerpt from her diaries.