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Weekend Reading: The Royal Family, Domestic Violence, and Burning Man

I was halfway through Hilary Mantel’s London Review of Books essay about the royal family when I emailed it to several friends under the subject line “Is Hilary Mantel the best writer…
PUBLISHED: Feb. 16, 2013
LENGTH: 2 minutes (612 words)

What Turned Jaron Lanier Against the Web?

Indeed, one of the foundations of Lanier’s critique of digitized culture is the very way its digital transmission at some deep level betrays the essence of what it tries to transmit. Take…
LENGTH: 14 minutes (3567 words)

Beyond the Matrix

On the monitor screen, Tom Hanks’s eyes, in extreme closeup, flickered through a complicated sequence of emotions: hatred, fear, anger, doubt. “Cut!” Lana Wachowski shouted. The crew on Stage 9 at…
PUBLISHED: Sept. 10, 2012
LENGTH: 4 minutes (1025 words)

Why Apple TV Just Became Apple's Most Important Product

There are coincidences in this world, and it's important not to read too much into them. Pandora playing the song stuck in your head doesn't make you psychic. But then there are coincidences you…
LENGTH: 5 minutes (1484 words)

The truth about the Fast and Furious scandal

By Katherine Eban Dave Voth, Fast and Furious supervisor for the ATF FORTUNE -- In the annals of impossible assignments, Dave Voth's ranked high. In 2009 the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco,…
PUBLISHED: June 27, 2012
LENGTH: 26 minutes (6673 words)

Money Unlimited

By having the case reargued, Roberts put the liberals in a box and transformed the decision’s impact on political campaigns.
PUBLISHED: May 21, 2012
LENGTH: 4 minutes (1023 words)

read his legacy of award-winning work

Anthony Shadid, a prize-winning foreign correspondent, died at the age of 43 in Syria, while reporting for the New York Times. A beloved and brilliant writer, Shadid spent his two-decade career…
PUBLISHED: Feb. 16, 2012
LENGTH: 1 minutes (340 words)

How U.S. Lost Out on iPhone Work

People flooded Foxconn Technology with résumés at a 2010 job fair in Henan Province, China. When Barack Obama joined Silicon Valley’s top luminaries for dinner in California…
PUBLISHED: Jan. 21, 2012
LENGTH: 18 minutes (4620 words)

The New Yorker's Nicholas Thompson

The New Yorker’s Nicholas Thompson: My Top 5 Longreads of 2011 Nicholas Thompson is a senior editor at The New Yorker and a frequent Longreader. I’m a sucker for stories about…
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LENGTH: 1 minutes (465 words)
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