Below, our favorite stories of the week. Sign up to receive this list free every Friday in your inbox. * * * 1. The Great A.I. Awakening Gideon Lewis-Kraus | New York Times | Dec. 14, 2016 |Â 60 minutes (15,174 words) The story of how Google developed artificial intelligence to vastly improve its translation service, […]
In 1996, David Foster Wallace profiled tennis player Michael Joyce in one of the most celebrated pieces of sports writing ever published. Who has he become since?
How does a young, successful actor become a relatively unknown director of most of the television you watch? And what’s next?
How does a young, successful actor become a relatively unknown director of most of the television you watch? And what’s next?
On losing oneself in the geography of fantasy worlds, from Middle Earth to Westeros.
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In 1996, David Foster Wallace profiled tennis player Michael Joyce in one of the most celebrated pieces of sports writing ever published. Who has he become since?
Congrats to this year’s winners!
An excerpt of Vanishing New York: How a Great City Lost its Soul, by Jeremiah Moss.
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