The author of The Castle likes his music in a time capsule and silence in his home—but definitely not in his stories.
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I Went to the White House Brawl and Watched the Manosphere Go Limp
“It was supposed to be an exhibition of freedom without restraint: a bombastic birthday boy, fourteen uncontrollable athletes, and a South Lawn build-out that was piss-your-pants patriotic. But what united onlookers, in the end, was the sudden realization that American machismo had hit a hard limit.”
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Power of the Badge
Having a cop in the family can reveal new dimensions of complexity, pitting family notions of justice against institutional notions of the same.
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Pawns, Puppet Heads, and Paranoia: An Eccentrics Reading List
“They’re a little eccentric” is a phrase I suspect most of us have heard used to describe a certain kind of memorable person. For me, it evokes my childhood dentist — an elderly man who favored colorful bow ties and humming loudly as he worked, and who once wagged his finger in my face and […]
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A Crying Public Shame
Dialogue, Twitter-style: you get called out on social media. People pile on to you. Other people pile on to the pile-oners. Soon everyone’s anxious or angry or both, no one’s really talking (or listening), and a few tech CEOs are buying new houses in Jackson Hole.
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In Defense of Schadenfreude
Historian Tiffany Watt Smith argues that schadenfreude, the joy we derive from another’s misfortune, is just a natural part of the very complex emotional responses we have as human beings.
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The Gilded Age of (Unpaid) Internet Writing
How ’90s webzines heralded the best — and worst — of today’s online media landscape.
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Strange Magic: Four Stories About Disney’s Dark Side
Revisit Disney through the eyes of these authors and see the good, the bad, and the creepy.
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Longreads Best of 2015: Under-Recognized Books
Books that deserved more attention in 2015.
