This is a list of my favourite articles/editorials/essays discovered this year.

January:

• Bendiksen, Jonas: Greenland’s vanishing villages in MAGNUM
• Della Zazzera, Elizabeth: Instead of writing a thousand words in Lapham's Quarterly
  • Part One
  • Part Two
  • Part Three
• Dovey, Ceridwen: Can reading make you happier? in The New Yorker
• MacLellan, Lila: The spellbinding power of reading nature's "lost" words out loud in Quartzy
• Pantall, Colin: Rethinking the ethical judgement of photography in Witness
• Reed, Shannon: Theater of Your Mind presents: It's 2:57am! in McSweeney's
• Smith, Maggie: Tracking the demise of my marriage on Google Maps in The New York Times

February:

• Anderson, Sam: A year in marginalia in The Millions
• Day, Gregory: One true note? in Griffith Review
• Doman, Mark; Liu, Ri; Palmer, Alex; Scott, Nathanael: The changing sound of the Hottest 100 on ABC News
• Lilley, Deborah: The mustard gas in Sherwood Forest in Places
• Manaugh, Geoff: Typographic forestry and other landscapes of translation in BLDGBLOG
• Robson, David: In the beginning was the word, and the word was embodied in Aeon
• Rothman, Aaron: Beyond Google Earth in Places

March:

• Andersen, Ross: What the crow knows in The Atlantic
• Bahnson, Fred: On the road with Thomas Merton in Emergence
• Hussein, Haisam: Local colors in Lapham's Quarterly
• Torres Ruiz, Gabriella: Silent Landscapes in Emergence

April:

• Gentile, Olivia: A feminist revolution in birding in Medium
• Keim, Brandon: Do cyborg cockroaches dream of electric trash? in Aeon

May:

• Campbell, Mel: On quiet writing in Overland
• Greenberg, Paul: In search of lost screen time in The New York Times
• Hromek, Daniele: Country, sustaining and maintaining, sentient and alive for Belvoir Street Theatre
• Makkai, Rebecca: The world is on fire. Can we still talk about books? in Electric Literature

June:

• Davison, Nicola: The Anthropocene epoch: have we entered a new phase of planetary history? in The Guardian
• Fry, Naomi: Keanu Reeves is too good for this world in The New Yorker
• Jacquet, Jennifer: Human error in Lapham's Quarterly
• Neals, Felice: Ode to Aleppo in Catapult
• Pavliscak, Pamela: Emojis are making us feel less of the feels in Quartzy
• Sacks, Oliver: The machine stops in The New Yorker

July:

• Kingsnorth, Paul: The language of the master in Emergence
• Logan, William Bryant: The lessons of a hideous forest in The New York Times
• Schulman, Michael: Daniel Radcliffe and the art of the fact-check in The New Yorker

August:

• Ellenbogen, Charles; et al.: How many must die? Teachers reflect on gun violence and student protest in Lit Hub
• Gorrie, Nayuka: White Psycho Dream Girls in Kill Your Darlings
• O'Connor, M. R.: A day in the life of a tree in The New Yorker
• Pardy, Nicola: This is an article about women in The New York Times
• Sestanovich, Clare: All the letters I'll never send in Lit Hub
• Uyeno, Greg: The name on the cup in Schwafire

September:

• Lamont, Tom: The typos that have changed people's lives in The Guardian
• Raz Portugali, Yonatan: The wisdom of never leaving your hotel room in Popula

October:

• Bonvalet, Lucie: Orange in 3AM
• Nassar, Dalia; et al: What can an embodied history of trees teach us about life? in Aeon
• Weil, Sylvie [tr. Ros Schwartz]: How to take a literary selfie in Granta

November:

• Hart, Alison: The joys of reading with a second grader in The Millions
• Pantall, Colin: Why photograph when every picture has already been made? in Witness
• Rivecca, Suzanne: Ugly, Bitter, and Strong in Zyzzyva and Long Reads
• Ro, Christine: How linguists are using Urban Dictionary in JSTOR
• Stewart, Lizzy: An Ode to Women who Walk in Lit Hub

December:

• Dash, Anil: The Web We Lost
  • Part One
  • Part Two
• Miller, Katherine: The 2010s have broken our sense of time for Buzzfeed
• Murphy, Cullen: Our Predictions About the Internet Are Probably Wrong in The Atlantic
• Seifert, Jeremy: What Makes a Church? A Tiny, Leafy Forest in The New York Times