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The ice inferno

Antarctica is a place only an intellectual could love. The further one moves into the interior, away from the coast and storms and marine life that tenuously valence with the Earth, the more dominant…
SOURCE:Aeon
LENGTH: 10 minutes (2610 words)

The Top Ten New Yorker Stories of 2012

Here’s one last exercise in democracy for 2012: a collection of the most popular magazine stories on the site this year, as determined by the combined clicks of the Internet electorate.…
PUBLISHED: Dec. 24, 2012
LENGTH: 2 minutes (575 words)

The Sharp, Sudden Decline of America's Middle Class | Culture News

Janis Adkins lives in her van at the Goleta Community Covenant Church in Santa Barbara. Mark Seliger June 25, 2012 11:45 AM ET Every night around nine, Janis Adkins falls asleep in the back of her…
AUTHOR:Jeff Tietz
PUBLISHED: June 25, 2012
LENGTH: 8 minutes (2211 words)

Philip Glass: On Tour, Not a Tourist

Listen to the first movement of Philip Glass’s Ninth Symphony.  In the 40 years that you’ve been touring internationally, what has changed the most about travel? It was more…
SOURCE:AFAR
LENGTH: 3 minutes (874 words)

Colm Tóibín on Joyce's Dublin: city of dreamers and chancers

Photograph: Bert Hardy/Hulton Archive/Getty Images One hundred and eight years ago today James Joyce and Nora Barnacle went out walking together for the first time. "Bloomsday", the day on which the…
PUBLISHED: June 15, 2012
LENGTH: 15 minutes (3769 words)

The Amazon Effect | The Nation

1. Wasserman The Amazon Effect Amazon got big fast, hastening the arrival of digital publishing. But how big is too big? Steve Wasserman, former editor of the Los Angeles Times Book Review, served as…
LENGTH: 24 minutes (6219 words)

'I Was There': On Kurt Vonnegut

“The cruelest thing you can do to Kerouac,” Hanif Kureishi has a character say in The Buddha of Suburbia, “is reread him at thirty-eight.” If that was true, I wondered as…
LENGTH: 24 minutes (6054 words)

The Best Storytelling for the Best Places in the World, Presented by Virgin Atlantic

Introducing Travelreads: The Best Storytelling for the Best Places in the World, Presented by Virgin Atlantic One of the coolest things about Longreads is when someone tweets:  “I’m…
AUTHOR:longreads
LENGTH: 1 minutes (263 words)

Shanghai Gets Supersized

When building projects grew scarce in the United States a few years ago, the California architect Robert Steinberg opened an office in Shanghai. He says he didnt…
LENGTH: 23 minutes (5777 words)
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