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This Is Punk?

One of the 100 self-identified punks (some of whom may not see the others as bona fide fellow travelers) in New York who participated in our poll.   (Photo: Lucas Michael) Punk rock has…
PUBLISHED: April 21, 2013
LENGTH: 3 minutes (811 words)

Too Much Sociology

We live in the emerging mainstream moment of the sociology of taste. Think back to the first time you heard someone casually talk of “cultural capital” at a party, usually someone…
PUBLISHED: April 8, 2013
LENGTH: 12 minutes (3224 words)
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Bad Land

Georg Baselitz, Das Motiv im Grand Canyon, 2003. Copyright © Georg Baselitz. Courtesy Galleri Bo Bjerggaard, Copenhagen. The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has…
LENGTH: 25 minutes (6294 words)

The Bitcoin Boom

On March 16th, the Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiades, who’d been in office for about a month, announced a strategy to solve the country’s banking crisis. This plan, which would be…
PUBLISHED: April 2, 2013
LENGTH: 14 minutes (3610 words)

Buckle Your Brainpan: The Primer Director Is Back With a New Film

Shane Carruth doesn’t just make movies. He encrypts them with data that can take years for fans to unravel.Photo: Pari DukovicHere’s what’s going to happen: In a few minutes,…
PUBLISHED: March 19, 2013
LENGTH: 14 minutes (3696 words)
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Real As Hell: A Conversation With George Saunders

While interviewing author George Saunders last week on the release of the audiobook of his new story collection, Tenth of December, my Skype connection cut out maybe four times. Such a miserable and…
LENGTH: 29 minutes (7286 words)

This Is A Longreads On The Internet: The Inroads Of Slow Art In A Fast Culture

The British documentary 56 Up, the latest installment of the renowned 50-year-long Up Series, had its stateside theatrical premiere earlier this year. The Up Series has followed the lives of the same…
LENGTH: 11 minutes (2836 words)

Who Won 2012?

July 12, 2012 was a bad day. Not the absolute worst day of the year, but easily top seven. Why? Surprisingly, it's not John Carter or Somethin' 'Bout Kreay–related; they allegedly came out on March 9…
PUBLISHED: Dec. 28, 2012
LENGTH: 32 minutes (8155 words)

LRB · Rebecca Solnit · Diary: Google Invades

The buses roll up to San Francisco’s bus stops in the morning and evening, but they are unmarked, or nearly so, and not for the public. They have no signs or have discreet acronyms on the front…
LENGTH: 12 minutes (3194 words)
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