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Posted inNonfiction, Top 5
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
This week, we’re sharing stories from Franklin Foer, Andy Greenberg, Jerry Saltz, Sara Selevitch, and Kyle Buchanan.
Posted inReading List
What’s Your Type? A Reading List on Typefaces with Wild Tales to Tell
Seven stories exploring our love affair with type.
Posted inHighlight, Quote Posts, Quotes
From Russia, With Malice
“But there is another reason for the government’s alarmingly inadequate response: a president who sees attempts to counter the Russia threat as a personal affront.”
Posted inNonfiction
Longreads Best of 2020: All of Our No. 1 Story Picks
Here’s every story that was chosen as No. 1 in our weekly Top 5 email.
Posted inBlog Post
Jeff Bezos: Hero or Villain?
Is the man behind Amazon a benevolent benefactor or a manipulative monopolist?
Posted inEditor's Pick
Inside the Collapse of the New Republic
Admittedly impartial, but thorough, breakdown by Lizza (a former contributing editor for TNR) on what happened when owner Chris Hughes attempted to replace the editor he hired, Franklin Foer, and reinvent the 100-year-old magazine as a digital media company.
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A marriage of convenience between two socialites in D.C. leads to murder: Drath’s murder seized the front page of The Washington Post, which was as awkwardly tangled in the story as the rest of the city’s elite. One of The Post’s columnists attended the couple’s dinners, as did the reporter who covered the case for […]
