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How Innovation Is More Poetry Than Science

In a recent conversation with Phil McKinney, former HP Chief Innovation Officer and author of Beyond the Obvious: Killer Questions That Spark Game-Changing Innovation, we discussed…
LENGTH: 7 minutes (1863 words)

Reproductive Rights and the Long Hand of Slave Breeding

I hate liberalism’s language of “choice.” I always have. Redolent of the marketplace, it reduces the most intimate aspects of existence, of women’s physical autonomy, to…
LENGTH: 7 minutes (1864 words)

The Place to Disappear

by Susan Orlean The New Yorker January 7, 2000 All languages are welcome on Bangkok's Khao San Road, including Drunkard. "Hold my hand," a man fluent in Singapore Slings commanded a Scottish…
LENGTH: 15 minutes (3763 words)

I'm Being Followed: How Google—and 104 Other Companies—Are Tracking Me on the Web

Who are these companies and what do they want from me? A voyage into the invisible business that funds the web. This morning, if you opened your browser and went to NYTimes.com, an amazing thing…
LENGTH: 16 minutes (4123 words)

Those Fabulous Confabs

(Photo: Getty Images. Photo treatment by Gluekit.) Had any bystanders witnessed the attack on Duncan Davidson late one evening three years ago, they could never have guessed its epochal…
PUBLISHED: Feb. 26, 2012
LENGTH: 3 minutes (946 words)

Why Companies Fail

The American auto industry—an industry that’s been the proud symbol of America’s manufacturing might for a century, an industry that helped to build our middle class—is once…
LENGTH: 9 minutes (2295 words)

The Caging of America

Six million people are under correctional supervision in the U.S.—more than were in Stalin’s gulags. Photograph by Steve Liss.
PUBLISHED: Jan. 30, 2012
LENGTH: 21 minutes (5481 words)

GOOD GRIEF

Grief is an odd thing. It is unreasonable and tyrannical and unreliable even as it is steadfast. I compartmentalize, get work done, as if nothing has happened; I observe very specific, limited…
AUTHOR:Dominique
PUBLISHED: Dec. 10, 2011
LENGTH: 4 minutes (1040 words)

Lapham's Quarterly editor Michelle Legro

Lapham’s Quarterly editor Michelle Legro: My Top 5 Longreads of 2011 Michelle Legro, longtime Longreader, is an editor at Lapham’s Quarterly. *** “The Age of Mechanical…
AUTHOR:longreads
LENGTH: 1 minutes (307 words)
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