Paul Brady is an editor at Condé Nast Traveler. *** This isn’t a list of the best travel writing of the year, but if this is what travel writing could be every time, the genre wouldn’t have such a shaky reputation. I didn’t pick anything from Traveler because that would be lame. Pass the Bucks […]
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The Man Who Spilled the Secrets
The Man Who Spilled the Secrets On the afternoon of November 1, 2010, Julian Assange, the Australian-born founder of WikiLeaks.org, marched with his lawyer into the London office of Alan Rusbridger, the editor of The Guardian. Assange was pallid and sweaty, his thin frame racked by a cough that had been plaguing him for weeks. […]
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[Fiction] One time we roadtripped across the country with Animal Brooks, and he almost got run over by a pickup truck partway through Alberta. It was me and my twenty-year-old girlfriend Vic and him, him in his cadpat jumpsuit, Vic in her flannel logger coat and her neon hair that glowed like a bush-lamp. We’d […]
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Featured Longreader: Barbara Mack, teacher/theologian. See her story picks from The Atlantic, The Guardian, The Morning News, and more on her #longreads page.
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(photo by Tim Knox) To his millions of readers, of course, Sendak will always be young, a proxy for Max in Where the Wild Things Are, who runs away from his mother’s anger into the consoling realm of his own imagination. There are monsters in there, but Max faces them down before returning to his […]
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Featured Longreader: Mandy C., a foreign relations junkie. See her story picks from The Guardian, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times and more on her #longreads page.
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Featured Longreader: Jeremy Kingsley, Wired UK contributor. See his story picks from The Guardian, The New Republic, The New York Review of Books and more on his #longreads page.
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Featured Longreader: Financial news reporter Shanny Basar. See her story picks from BBC News, The Guardian, Rolling Stone and more on her #longreads page.
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It’s a beautiful, clear night outside on deck 4. Ahead of us are the lights of another cruise ship. A few days later – when we reach Puerto Vallarta – I spot it again. It’s called the Carnival Spirit. Forty-three people have vanished from Carnival cruises since 2000. Theirs is the worst record of all […]
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The following morning all four awake feeling not quite right. By lunchtime they are seriously ill. They consult a book in the kitchen – a guide to wild mushrooms – and leaf through until they find a photograph. Anxiously they scan the text, and see the chilling words: deadly poisonous. The local GP is called […]
