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The Man Who Spilled the Secrets

The Man Who Spilled the Secrets

A Basketball Carol

A Basketball Carol

Michelle Legro: Top Longreads for Animal Behavior

Michelle Legro: Top Longreads for Animal Behavior

The Web After You're Dead

The Web After You’re Dead

Infopocalypse: The Cost of Too Much Data

Infopocalypse: The Cost of Too Much Data

However much the book was revised, it should have been revised more. The opening may have been reworked, as Gedin says, but it still features an episode—somebody telling somebody else at length (twelve pages!) about a series of financial crimes peripheral to the main plot—that, by wide consensus, is staggeringly boring. Elsewhere, there are blatant violations of logic and consistency. Loose ends dangle. There are vast dumps of unnecessary detail. When Lisbeth goes to IKEA, we get a list of every single thing she buys. The jokes aren’t funny. The dialogue could not be worse. The phrasing and the vocabulary are consistently banal.

Can You Live Forever? Maybe Not—But You Can Have Fun Trying

Can You Live Forever? Maybe Not—But You Can Have Fun Trying

The Atlantic: The Rise Of The New Global Elite

The Atlantic: The Rise Of The New Global Elite

The Dubai Job: The Mossad's Mission to Take Out a Hamas Leader

The Dubai Job: The Mossad’s Mission to Take Out a Hamas Leader