EABL : Longreads

The Hubris and Despair of War Journalism

What Martha Gellhorn teaches us about the morality of contemporary war reportage. Images courtesy of Peter Van Agtmeal/Magnum Photos War correspondent Martha Gellhorn (1908-1998) was a household…

SOURCE:www.guernicamag.com

LENGTH: 11 minutes (2876 words)

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The best overall long-form articles published this year.

This week we’ve been sharing our favorite articles of the year on Slate. This is the final installment, our overall top 10 stories of the year. For our full list—including the top 10…

AUTHOR:Christopher Hitchens

SOURCE:www.slate.com

PUBLISHED: Dec. 30, 2011

LENGTH: 4 minutes (1008 words)

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Snow, Glass, Apples

Snow, Glass, Apples appears as a benefit book published by Dreamhaven for the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund. Proceeds from this book go to CBLDF. The CBLDF is a non-profit charitable tax-exempt…

SOURCE:www.holycow.com

LENGTH: 20 minutes (5141 words)

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Kids today need a licence to tinker

Engineer Eben Upton with a prototype of the Raspberry Pi computer, which will cost around 15 and is fully programmable and capable of running sosphisticated software such as Firefox.…

AUTHOR:John Naughton

SOURCE:www.guardian.co.uk

PUBLISHED: Aug. 28, 2011

LENGTH: 8 minutes (2070 words)

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Five exceptional stories about bizarrely close brothers and sisters.

Every weekend, Longform.org shares a collection of great stories from its archive with Slate. For a daily selection of new and classic nonfiction, check out Longform.org or follow

AUTHOR:Max Linsky

SOURCE:www.slate.com

PUBLISHED: Aug. 6, 2011

LENGTH: 4 minutes (1134 words)

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Murdoch Hacked Us Too

Illustration by Eddie Guy When I was offered a job as a film critic for the New York Post in 1975, it had just been labeled a terrible newspaper by Nora Ephron in her media column for Esquire.…

AUTHOR:Frank Rich

SOURCE:New York Magazine

PUBLISHED: July 31, 2011

LENGTH: 17 minutes (4356 words)

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