Speaking of Longreads (see the post below), Longreads.com has released their best of 2024, which is broken into numerous categories. They always compile the best best-of list of the year:
Good Writing
2 PostsI hate linking to Bloomberg, but I do appreciate their annual Jealousy list, wherein their reporters list the articles published at other outlets that they themselves wish they'd written.
Here's the 2024 Jealousy List. Previous years have archive links on the page.