The Best Longreads in Business and Finance for the Week of April 12

The story of how a Deleuze-reading MIT graduate student became the future of online publishing and advertising. Coffeeland David Farley, Afar When it comes to food, Ethiopia is more known for its…
PUBLISHED: April 14, 2013

The Week’s Best Longreads for March 23, 2013

Young children—even toddlers—are spending more and more time with digital technology. What will it mean for their development? Bringing Them Back to Life Carl Zimmer, National…
PUBLISHED: March 23, 2013

Best Business Longreads

Clockwise from left: Capital by John Lanchester, HSBC headquarters in London, and Bank of Israel governor Stanley Fischer. (AP (2)) The Way They Live Now Michael Lewis, The New York Review of Books
PUBLISHED: Feb. 17, 2013

Dear 02A3172: Letters To and From a Caged Bird

In 1999, when I was 19 years old, I was arrested and charged with first degree murder, several counts of attempted murder, attempted robbery, and several counts of criminal use of a weapon. I was…
SOURCE:gawker.com
LENGTH: 15 minutes (3785 words)

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The Year We Found Goatse and Visited the KKK: The Best of Gawker's 2012 Longreads

Sometimes, instead of writing 40 words to go along with a viral Internet video, we write many words. Thousands of words, even. Since we do this somewhat frequently, those pieces can be easy to miss.…
SOURCE:gawker.com
LENGTH: 5 minutes (1378 words)

The Week’s Best Longreads

The Dead Are Real 
Larissa Macfarquhar, The New Yorker Hilary Mantel’s imagination.
PUBLISHED: Oct. 13, 2012

The Week’s Best Longreads

Let’s Be Friends Ryan Lizza, The New Yorker Barack Obama and Bill Clinton reconcile. The Tryhards Freddie DeBoer, The New Inquir
PUBLISHED: Sept. 8, 2012

How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America: A Remembrance

I've had guns pulled on me by four people under Central Mississippi skies — once by a white undercover cop, once by a young brother trying to rob me for the leftovers of a weak work-study check, once…
SOURCE:gawker.com
LENGTH: 18 minutes (4724 words)
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