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Selected features, articles and essays from the world's best journalists and writers. 150 Essential Articles and Essays Psychology The Blind Man Who Learned To See by Michael FinkelFr iendship,…
LENGTH: 3 minutes (930 words)

A Commencement Address From the Slapstick President

The commencement of Buster Keaton took place one year after my own. I returned to school for the occasion. There he was, up in front, somehow, someway managing not to injure himself. Of all the…
PUBLISHED: June 11, 2012
LENGTH: 6 minutes (1732 words)
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Diving into the Shallows | Full Stop

The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our BrainsNicholas Carr [W.W. Norton, 2010] Luminous AirplanesPaul La Farge [Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, 2011] A novel can’t make toast. A novel…
PUBLISHED: March 13, 2012
LENGTH: 10 minutes (2706 words)
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