Top 10

The Apostate Lawrence Wright • New Yorker Paul Haggis vs. the Church of Scientology.

The Movie Set That Ate Itself Michael Idov • GQ Inside one of the wildest experiments in film history.

Watching the Murder of an Innocent Man Barry Bearak • New York Times Magazine Bearing witness to mob violence in Johannesburg.

In the Sorting Office James Meek • London Review of Books The brave new world of privatized postal services.

A Murder Foretold David Grann • New Yorker Unraveling a political conspiracy in Guatemala.

Could Conjoined Twins Share a Mind? Susan Dominus • New York Times Magazine The shared life of Tatiana and Krista Hogan.

The Stoner Arms Dealers Guy Lawson • Rolling Stone How two American kids became big time weapons dealers.

This Tech Bubble is Different Ashlee Vance • Businessweek The big problem with today's big ideas.

The Greatest Paper That Ever Died Alex French and Howie Kahn • Grantland An oral history of The National Sports Daily.