Longreads

In the high-rent gentrifying neighborhoods of New Brooklyn, class guilt is ubiquitous, if hidden. By Evan Hughes, from Tin House March/April 2013

A box of old photos belonging to Michael Quinn at his home. Daryl Peveto/Luceo Images for Slate. © 2012 One Sunday in February of 1993, Michael Quinn wa

Jemile Weeks, the Oakland A's second baseman, has the hips of a 15-year-old girl and a puny batting average, but he makes a sweet pivot on the double play and he's a travel-size terror on the base…

Aaron Sorkin's The West Wing had the highest stakes of any television he's writtenPhotograph courtesy NBC Studios. In the first play Aaron Sorkin ever got produced, a one-act called

In trying to think what Marx would have made of the world today, we have to begin by stressing that he was not an empiricist. He didn’t think that you could gain access to the truth by…

Twitter uses the t.co domain as part of a service to protect users from harmful activity, to provide value for the developer ecosystem, and as a quality signal for surfacing relevant, interesting…

The Awl’s Choire Sicha, Carrie Frye, Alex Balk: Our Top Longreads of 2011 (Left to right: Choire, Carrie, Alex) Because there are three of us, we trilaterally decided to go for 15. But…

David Foster Wallace in 1996.(Photo: Gary Hannabarger/Corbis) When Jeffrey Eugenides moved to New York, he was 28 years old and things were not looking good. After graduating from Brown in…

If we follow the logic of Fredric Jameson’s Postmodernism, or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism, we could say that Rupert Murdoch is not so much a man, or a cultural force, as a portrait of the modern world. He is the way we live now; he is the media magnate we deserve. It is almost impossible to say a single conclusive, summing-up thing about him.