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Bangalore Pride

Every queer pride parade in an Indian city is a sort of landmark event. But not every parade reveals a whole new sexual category before it’s over. At Bangalore Pride 2012, which was held last…
PUBLISHED: May 13, 2013
LENGTH: 10 minutes (2593 words)

How To Think More (But Not Better): Alain de Botton’s School of Life by by Lisa Levy

IS THE VERY IDEA of an intelligent self-help book a paradox? It is certainly trying to serve two demanding masters: philosophical speculation and practical action. After all, readers don’t…
LENGTH: 11 minutes (2790 words)
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Revenge, ego, and the corruption of Wikipedia

In the wee hours of the morning of January 27, 2013, a Wikipedia editor named “Qworty” made a series of 14 separate edits to the Wikipedia page for the late writer Barry Hannah, a well-regarded…
PUBLISHED: May 17, 2013
LENGTH: 20 minutes (5121 words)

Inside the Oscar Pistorius Murder Case: What Paths Took the Couple to That Final Night?

When Oscar Pistorius—the South African “Blade Runner,” who overcame a double amputation to compete in the Olympics last year—shot his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp, on…
AUTHOR:Mark Seal
PUBLISHED: June 1, 2013
LENGTH: 32 minutes (8083 words)

Saigon's Xe Om: Motorcycle Taxi Drivers That Made Me Smile

At the end of my trip to Can Tho and the Mekong Delta, still smiling from that spectacular bun rieu soup, I took a long bus back to Saigon, into Mien Tay, the Western bus station. Located about a 20…
LENGTH: 8 minutes (2131 words)

When science goes silent

As far as the government scientist was concerned, it was a bit of fluff: an early morning interview about great white sharks last summer with Canada AM, the kind of innocuous and totally apolitical…
SOURCE:MacLean's
PUBLISHED: May 3, 2013
LENGTH: 11 minutes (2979 words)

The Lethality of Loneliness

Sometime in the late ’50s, Frieda Fromm-Reichmann sat down to write an essay about a subject that had been mostly overlooked by other psychoanalysts up to that point. Even Freud had only…
PUBLISHED: May 13, 2013
LENGTH: 20 minutes (5124 words)

Mangoes of Wrath

Mirza Ghulam Ahmad began the Ahmadiyya faith when he declared himself a prophet in 1889, in his hometown of Qadian in India. This runs counter to Muslim belief that Mohammed was the last of the…
LENGTH: 2 minutes (654 words)

Top 5 Longreads of the Week

4. The Luckiest Village in the World Michael Paterniti | GQ | May 6, 2013 | 26 minutes (6,701 words) What happened when the village of Sodeto won the largest lottery in the history of Spain:"Ana, the…
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