It took a long, long, long time

These are the pieces of reporting, essays, culture writing, etc. that stayed with me over the course of 2017. I recommend each of the works listed here and hope to make a better attempt to keep up with the authors in the coming year (see my own writing from last year):

• Chords of Inquiry, Carl Wilson (Bookforum)

• Harvey Weinstein's Accusers Tell Their Stories, Ronan Farrow (The New Yorker) / Jodi Kantor & Megan Twohey's NYT reporting

• Five Magnificent Years, Geoffrey O' Brien (The New York Review of Books)

• When Fairfield County was the Comic Strip Capital of the World, Cullen Murphy (Vanity Fair)

• Camera Obscura, Luc Sante (Bookforum)

• Killing Bill O'Reilly, Matthew Stevenson (Harper's)

• The Girl Gangs of El Salvador, Lauren Markham (Pacific Standard)

• Anthony Bourdain's Moveable Feast, Patrick Radden Keefe (The New Yorker)

• How Jared Kushner is Dismantling a Family Empire, Rich Cohen (Vanity Fair)

• Queens of the Stoned Age, Suketu Mehta (GQ)

• Lions of Los Angeles, Dana Goodyear (The New Yorker)

• A Secret Little Glass Home in the Heart of New York, Sadie Stein (The New York Times)

• Duke Ellington, Bill Evans, and One Night In New York City, Ethan Iverson (The New Yorker)

• The Reclusive Hedge-Fund Tycoon Behind the Trump Presidency, Jane Mayer (The New Yorker — this kept me up for several nights)

• Making America Grateful Again, Mike Powell (The Ringer)

• *Late entry: Critic Kim Morgan's unmissable essay on It's a Wonderful Life.