Patrick Doyle is a senior editor for 5280 Magazine in Denver. patrickcdoyle: The good folks at Longreads.com have been asking everyone for their five favorite pieces from 2010. Here are mine. “Roger Ebert: The Essential Man,” by Chris Jones, EsquireThe best story of the year. Just give Jones his Ellie now. “The End of Men,” […]
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Brendan Maher: My Top 5 Longreads of 2010
I’m the biology features editor for the news team at Nature, the UK-based science journal. Longreads kindly asked me to offer up my five favourite couldn’t-put-down features for the year, and I was happy to comply. The focus on biology wasn’t intentional, but I did purposely keep features from Nature out of the running (it’s […]
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The Atlantic: The Rise Of The New Global Elite
The Atlantic: The Rise Of The New Global Elite theatlantic: F. Scott Fitzgerald was right when he declared the rich different from you and me. But today’s super-rich are also different from yesterday’s: more hardworking and meritocratic, but less connected to the nations that granted them opportunity—and the countrymen they are leaving ever further behind. […]
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The Tyranny of Defense Inc.
The Tyranny of Defense Inc. For those at the top, the American military profession is that rare calling where retirement need not imply a reduced income. On the contrary: senior serving officers shed their uniforms not merely to take up golf or go fishing but with the reasonable expectation of raking in big money. In […]
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kimaskew: My Favorite #Longreads This Week
kimaskew: In Search of Spiraling Time (Bookslut) The Man Who Spilled the Secrets (Vanity Fair) Michael Chabon: How to Salvage a “Wrecked” Novel (The Atlantic) David Mitchell: Earth calling Taylor (FT.com)
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Jared Keller: Cities and Urban Life: A #Longreads #List
jaredbkeller: I often find that urbanism and urban living are overly romanticized, more often by citydwellers themselves: Stumbling through concrete caravans dripping with mystique, a day-to-day narrative of tempered chaos, or an odd catharsis as told through the lens of sidewalk meet-cute. I often long for life closer to the wilderness, clogged by forests and dirty roads, but […]
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Atlantic Cover Story: Mind vs. Machine
Atlantic Cover Story: Mind vs. Machine In May 1989, Mark Humphrys, a 21-year-old University College Dublin undergraduate, put online an Eliza-style program he’d written, called “MGonz,” and left the building for the day. A user (screen name “Someone”) at Drake University in Iowa tentatively sent the message “finger” to Humphrys’s account—an early-Internet command that acted […]
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The Lisa Simpson Book Club: Lisa's Longreads
The Lisa Simpson Book Club: Lisa’s Longreads lisasimpsonbookclub: 1. A Convesation With Gore Vidal (The Atlantic) Gore Vidal may have kissed more boys than Lisa, that didn’t stop her from enjoying The City and the Pillar. For a quicker (let more substantive) taste of the Ambrosia Vidal, read this 2009 interview with John Meroney in […]
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James L. Brooks on Journalism, the Oscars, and 'Broadcast News'
James L. Brooks on Journalism, the Oscars, and ‘Broadcast News’ We filmed it almost entirely in sequence. We even broke up the newsroom scenes just so we could shoot the picture in sequence. And that means we kept informing ourselves. That means we woke up and these things happened with people in the sequence they’re […]
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Rad Storm Rising (1990)
Rad Storm Rising (1990) A hundred and fifty years ago the Russian philosopher Petr Chaadayev wrote that “we are one of those nations that somehow are not part of mankind but exist only for the sake of teaching the world some kind of terrible lesson.” In the area of nuclear affairs the steady emission of […]
