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My top 12 longreads of 2011

The wonderful site Longreads is collating people’s picks of the best long features of the year. Some say that the internet is triggering a renaissance for long-form writing and I very much…
PUBLISHED: Dec. 24, 2011
LENGTH: 4 minutes (1124 words)

My Father's "Eviscerated" Work - Son Of Hobbit Scribe J.R.R. Tolkien Finally Speaks Out

What follows is the first ever press interview of Christopher Tolkien, the official executor of J.R.R. Tolkien's estate, and the interpreter of his father's unpublished works. This original article…
LENGTH: 13 minutes (3454 words)

The Many Faces of Sir Walter Ralegh

Nobody has ever doubted that Sir Walter Ralegh is a significant figure. The nature of his significance has however changed over time, and those changes are reflected in images of the man even more…
PUBLISHED: March 1, 1998
LENGTH: 18 minutes (4628 words)

LRB · Perry Anderson · Gandhi Centre Stage

‘Astonishing thought: that any culture or civilisation should have this continuity for five or six thousand years or more; and not in a static or unchanging sense, for India was changing and…
LENGTH: 45 minutes (11282 words)

The Trouble with Scientism

There are two cathedrals in Coventry. The newer one, consecrated on May 25, 1962, stands beside the remains of the older one, which dates from the fourteenth century, a ruin testifying to the…
LENGTH: 6 minutes (1514 words)

'How to Do Things with Videogames' by Ian Bogust

From Braid, Jonathan Blow, 2009 From Chapter 1: Art Are videogames art? Its a question thats sparked considerable debate, most notably thanks to the film critic Roger Eberts declaration that…
LENGTH: 12 minutes (3026 words)

THE CURSE OF TINA PART TWO

LEARNING TO HUG Everywhere on television today people hug and burst into tears. It happens in drama a lot - but it has completely taken over factual programmes too. It usually comes at…
PUBLISHED: Oct. 4, 2011
LENGTH: 13 minutes (3302 words)

Shareable

We highlight a little-understood cognitive phenomenon that may play a key role in the maladaptive failures of the modern human environment. There are implications for our future…
LENGTH: 19 minutes (4910 words)

Rebel Rebel

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PUBLISHED: Aug. 29, 2011
LENGTH: 19 minutes (4962 words)
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