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The Top 10 Longreads of 2012

9. The Semplica-Girl Diaries George Saunders | The New Yorker | October 8, 2012 | 35 minutes (8,979 words) A father uses his lottery winnings for an extravagant birthday party for his teenage…
LENGTH: 1 minutes (283 words)

The Week’s Best Longreads

The Man Who Charged Himself With Murder Jennifer Gonnerman, New York Trevell Coleman wasn’t sure whether he’d killed a man. But after seventeen years, he needed to find out.
PUBLISHED: Nov. 24, 2012

The Expendables

It’s the dark romance of the French Foreign Legion: haunted men from everywhere, fighting anywhere, dying for causes not their own. Legionnaires need war, certainly, and Afghanistan is winding down.…
PUBLISHED: Dec. 1, 2012
LENGTH: 31 minutes (7867 words)

The Marines' Breast Cancer Epidemic

Kris Thomas (left) and Jim Fontella in the Art beCAUSE breast cancer calendar. (David Fox) It all started with Mike Partain, a.k.a. Number One. A barrel-chested father of four with a goatee and a…
LENGTH: 6 minutes (1689 words)

The New French Hacker-Artist Underground

Thirty years ago, in the dead of night, a group of six Parisian teenagers pulled off what would prove to be a fateful theft. They met up at a small cafè near the Eiffel Tower to review their…
PUBLISHED: Jan. 20, 2012
LENGTH: 3 minutes (983 words)

Transformation And Transcendence: The Power Of Female Friendship

In 1997 I arrived in Geneva to work for a year at the headquarters of a relief organization. Feeling overwhelmed by my job and lonely in a city of overworked expats passing through for two to three…
LENGTH: 10 minutes (2583 words)

The Rolling Stone Interview

Mark Chew/Fairfax Media/Fairfax Media via Getty Images It's a few days before Christmas, and Julian Assange has just finished moving to a new hide-out deep in the English countryside. The…
LENGTH: 34 minutes (8586 words)

The Awakening

One evening recently in Rangoon, my friend Ko Ye (not his real name) arrived at the apartment where I was staying, brandishing the latest issue of the weekly newspaper he runs. It was, he…
LENGTH: 13 minutes (3482 words)

Dr. Yang’s Fight Club

January-February 2012 http://www.utne.com/Mind-Body/Dr-Yangs-Fight-Club-White-Crane-Kung-Fu.aspx by Oliver Broudy, from Tin House Victo Ngai / www.victo-ngai.com Four hours north of San Francisco…
LENGTH: 16 minutes (4102 words)
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