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You'll have noticed over the past few months that we are major fans of New York Times columnist David Brooks.
Well, every Christmas, he collates a selection of his favourite magazine essays from the year just gone. And this year, in a ceremony called the Sidney Awards - named for the Sidney Hillman Foundation - he pulls out some corkers. Our own top marks probably go to New Yorker Editor David Remnick's brilliant profile of Bruce Springsteen.
Have a read of Brooks' selection at the link below. He gets it about right. But what have you read this year that he might have missed?
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