The soft-focus Britain of Downton Abbey bears little resemblance to the real Britain collapsing under the weight of racism, austerity, and COVID-19. As Brexit plods on, it’s time for an honest reckoning of the history and future of this outsize little island.
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Reading with Kiese Laymon’s “Heavy”
“Heavy” confronts generations of Black art.
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Bridget Jones’s Staggeringly Outdated Diary
Nineties relationship books had some serious issues, man.
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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
The best stories of the week, as chosen by the editors of Longreads.
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Literature by the Numbers
Data journalist Ben Blatt takes his a mathematical approach to the writers of fiction.
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Literature by the Numbers
Data journalist Ben Blatt takes his a mathematical approach to the writers of fiction.
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“The Glorious Plight of the Buffalo Bills.” —Ben Austen, Grantland More from Austen
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The Terminator Scenario: Are We Giving Our Military Machines Too Much Power?
The Terminator Scenario: Are We Giving Our Military Machines Too Much Power? Dahm’s vision, however, suggests another “Terminator scenario,” one more plausible and not without menace. Over the course of dozens of interviews with military officials, robot designers and technology ethicists, I came to understand that we are at work on not one but two […]
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The demolition of the Cabrini-Green housing project in Chicago was supposed to open up new opportunities for low-income families. But the community has disappeared: The fifteen-story high-rise was known by its address, 1230 N. Burling. Already stripped of every window, door, appliance, and cabinet, the monolith was like a giant dresser without drawers. The teeth tore […]
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Entrepreneurs continue to reflect on the lessons of Steve Jobs—is his story ultimately a cautionary tale about a person obsessed with the wrong things in life? Soon after Steve Jobs returned to Apple as CEO in 1997, he decided that a shipping company wasn’t delivering spare parts fast enough. The shipper said it couldn’t do […]
