The Sunday Long Read

If you want one email that already looks like a weekend, this is it. It lands every Sunday, free, built around the past week's best longform journalism from across the web, so the reading list is waiting before your second cup of coffee. Two journalists, Don Van Natta Jr. and Jacob Feldman, started it in late 2014, and it has highlighted roughly 10,000 pieces since, which makes it the steadiest single source on this list for serious reporting. Sportswriting fans can add its sister newsletter, The Lineup, and true crime readers a monthly edition of their own.