Reads: The Best Storytelling on the Web

As a journalism student, nothing inspires me more than great writing. So, like the title says, here's a list of some of the most interesting reads I encountered on the Web over the last few months. Happy reading!

1. The Curse of the Bahia Emerald, a Giant Green Rock That Ruins Lives - Wired
2. Art of the Steal: On the Trail of World's Most Ingenious Thief - Wired
3. Why the Future Doesn't Need Us - Wired
4. Cracking the Biggest Art Heist in History - Bloomberg
5. The Spy Who Added Me on LinkedIn - Bloomberg
6. The $99 Billion Idea - Bloomberg
7. Code-Dependent: Pros and Cons of the Algorithm Age - Pew Research Center
8. The Man in the Rockefeller Suit - Vanity Fair
9. The Epidemic of Gay Loneliness - The Huffington Post
10. Fractured Lands: How the Arab World Came Apart - The New York Times
11. The Great A.I. Awakening - The New York Times
12. Is an Open Marriage a Happier Marriage? - The New York Times
13. New York Above 800 Feet - The New York Times
14. The Last Day of Her Life - The New York Times
15. Greenland Is Melting Away - The New York Times
16. Inside The Fight For Mosul - Buzzfeed
17. Selling Mark Zuckerberg - Buzzfeed
18. 14 People In Massachusetts Suddenly Lost Their Memories. Could Heroin Be The Culprit? - Buzzfeed
19. Rise of the Machines: Who is the 'Internet of Things' Good for? - The Guardian
20. Robot Hearts: Medicine's New Frontier - The Guardian
21. The East India Company: The Original Corporate Raiders - The Guardian
22. How One Man Survived Alone in the Wilderness for 27 Years - The Guardian
23. Sickening, Gruelling or Frightful: How Doctors Measure Pain - The Guardian
24. Vanishing Point: The Rise of the Invisible Computer - The Guardian
25. How Statistics Lost Their Power - and Why we Should Fear What Comes Next - The Guardian
26. The Chessboard Killer - GQ
27. How To Get Away With (the Perfect) Murder - GQ
28. Into the Storm: The True Story of a Harrowing Ocean Rescue - GQ
29. The Most Exclusive Restaurant in America - The New Yorker
30. The List (When Kids Are Accused of Sex Crimes) - The New Yorker
31. Greenland is Melting - The New Yorker
32. Letting Go: What Should Medicine Do When It Can’t Save Your Life? - The New Yorker
33. Crisis in the Hot Zone - The New Yorker
34. A Silent Childhood - The New Yorker (Part I, Part II)
35. The Rise and Fall of Toronto's Classiest Con Man - The Walrus
36. Vanishing (The Extinction Crisis is Far Worse Than You Think) - CNN
37. What Say You, Dinosaur? - Aeon
38. And Their Eyes Glazed Over - Aeon
39. The Strange Inevitability of Evolution - Nautilus
40. Are You a Self-Interrupter? - Nautilus
41. The Scientists Who Make Apps Addictive - The Economist 1843
42. Have a Scientific Problem? Steal an Answer from Nature - Ars Technica
43. How Do You Build a Robot Army? - Ars Technica
44. When the Devil Enters - The Atavist
45. How Science is Helping Us Understand Gender - National Geographic
46. How Science is Putting a New Face on Crime Solving - National Geographic
47. The Man in the Woods - The California Sunday Magazine
48. War Goes Viral - The Atlantic
49. The World in its Extreme - The Atlantic
50. I Went Undercover With a Border Militia. Here's What I Saw. - Mother Jones
51. What Happened to Eastern Airlines Flight 980? - Outside
52. The Falling Man - Esquire
53. The Last Meal - Esquire
54. The Great American Bubble Machine - Rolling Stone
55. The Origin of AIDS - Rolling Stone (reproduced here)
56. A Rape in Cyberspace - Village Voice (reproduced here)