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How Do You Raise a Prodigy?

Drew Petersen didn’t speak until he was 3½, but his mother, Sue, never believed he was slow. When he was 18 months old, in 1994, she was reading to him and skipped a word, whereupon Drew reached over…
PUBLISHED: Oct. 31, 2012
LENGTH: 18 minutes (4669 words)
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The Electric Typewriter

As chosen by Jared B. Keller Jared B. Keller is an associate editor at The Atlantic, and one of the keepers of The Atlantic’s Tumblr. We asked him to choose the 5 articles he finds himself…
LENGTH: 1 minutes (310 words)

Five centuries before Facebook and the Arab spring, social media helped bring about the Reformation

IT IS a familiar-sounding tale: after decades of simmering discontent a new form of media gives opponents of an authoritarian regime a way to express their views, register their solidarity and…
PUBLISHED: Dec. 17, 2011
LENGTH: 10 minutes (2627 words)

The Paris Review

'The Soldier's Dream of Home,' a Currier Ives lithograph produced during the Civil War, was one sign of the great attention that soldiers' homesickness received. Courtesy of Library…
PUBLISHED: Nov. 2, 2011
LENGTH: 6 minutes (1690 words)
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William Burroughs on…Led Zeppelin!

Rock Magic: Jimmy Page, Led Zeppelin, And a search for the elusive Stairway to Heaven by William Burroughs, Crawdaddy Magazine, June 1975. When I was first asked to write an article on the Led…
PUBLISHED: Dec. 5, 2007
LENGTH: 20 minutes (5039 words)

A pianist who’s recording all 32 of them on what it’s like inside the studio.

Jonathan Biss will play all 32 of Beethoven's sonatas Editor’s note: This is an excerpt from Jonathan Biss’ Kindle Single Beethoven’s Shadow, available at Amazon.com.
PUBLISHED: Dec. 16, 2011
LENGTH: 7 minutes (1985 words)
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