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Inside Apple's Plans for Its Futuristic, $5 Billion Headquarters

At what turned out to be his last public appearance, Steve Jobs stood before the Cupertino City Council on June 7, 2011, to present plans for a new corporate campus for Apple (AAPL). Scarecrow thin…
PUBLISHED: April 4, 2013
LENGTH: 10 minutes (2715 words)

The Nightmare of the West Memphis Three

Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills (1996), Paradise Lost 2: Revelations (2000), Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory (2011) three films directed by Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky HBO, three…
PUBLISHED: April 4, 2013
LENGTH: 10 minutes (2547 words)

De Nimes

A farmer shows off his trusty blue jeans in Pie Town, New Mexico, 1940. Photo courtesy of Russell Lee/Library of Congress Before we had low-rise, straight-leg, skinny, selvage, stretchy,…
LENGTH: 8 minutes (2232 words)
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The Last Days of '30 Rock' | Movies News

Tina Fey as Liz Lemon, Jack McBrayer as Kenneth Parcell, Jane Krakowski as Jenna Maroney, Alec Baldwin as Jack Donaghy and Tracy Morgan as Tracy Jordan in '30 Rock.' Art Streiber/NBC
PUBLISHED: Jan. 31, 2013
LENGTH: 6 minutes (1563 words)

George Saunders Has Written the Best Book You’ll Read This Year

George Saunders In a little sushi restaurant in Syracuse, George Saunders conceded that, sure, one reality was that he and I were a couple guys talking fiction and eating avocado salad and listenin
PUBLISHED: Jan. 3, 2013
LENGTH: 2 minutes (690 words)

Cold Pastoral

When Marina Keegan died, tragically, at the age of twenty-two, in a car accident in May, she had just graduated from Yale University and was about to start a job on the editorial staff of The New…
PUBLISHED: Oct. 5, 2012
LENGTH: 28 minutes (7018 words)

The Top 10 Longreads of 2012

9. The Semplica-Girl Diaries George Saunders | The New Yorker | October 8, 2012 | 35 minutes (8,979 words) A father uses his lottery winnings for an extravagant birthday party for his teenage…
LENGTH: 1 minutes (283 words)

Occupy the Rockaways!

Google/NASA/USDA Farm Service Agency The Rockaway Peninsula, New York City, much of which was heavily damaged by Hurricane Sandy at the end of October 2012 I grew up in Belle Harbor, on the western…
PUBLISHED: Jan. 10, 2013
LENGTH: 7 minutes (1993 words)

Barack Obama in The New Yorker

Tonight, President Barack Obama will deliver the final address of the Democratic National Convention. The New Yorker was one of the first national outlets to take a hard look at Obama, back when the…
PUBLISHED: Sept. 6, 2012
LENGTH: 1 minutes (341 words)
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