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Gregory Nagy, a professor of classical Greek literature at Harvard, is a gentle academic of the sort who, asked about the future, will begin speaking of Homer and the battles of the distant past. At…
PUBLISHED: May 20, 2013
LENGTH: 4 minutes (1040 words)

Nicholas Thompson, newyorker.com editor: 'our capacity to absorb information is growing'

Nicholas Thompson's a busy guy. He's the newly-appointed editor of newyorker.com, the website companion to The New Yorker. He's also co-founder of The Atavist, an ASME-nominated company experimenting…
SOURCE:The Verge
PUBLISHED: May 4, 2012
LENGTH: 5 minutes (1369 words)

The Awl's Choire Sicha, Carrie Frye, Alex Balk

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…
AUTHOR:longreads
LENGTH: 1 minutes (408 words)

Tech Reads, November 20th

We all know the feeling. You're sleepless in the sad hours of the night or stumbling around early on a hazy weekend morning in need of something to read, and that pile of unread books just isn't…
SOURCE:The Verge
PUBLISHED: Nov. 20, 2011
LENGTH: 3 minutes (954 words)

The best tech writing of the week, January 29th

Feature We all know the feeling. You're sleepless in the sad hours of the night or stumbling around early on a hazy weekend morning in need of something to read, and that pile of unread books just…
LENGTH: 4 minutes (1109 words)
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