“Getting copied is devastating—but not necessarily illegal. Who owns what in an era of unprecedented mass consumption?”
Search results
Posted inEditor's Pick
Watch This Guy Work, and You’ll Finally Understand the TikTok Era
“The creator economy is fragmented and chaotic. Talent manager Ursus Magana can (almost) make sense of it, with a frenetic formula for gaming the algorithms.”
Posted inEditor's Pick
Everyone Is Cheating Their Way Through College
“ChatGPT has unraveled the entire academic project.”
Posted inReading List
Brave New World: A Reading List About the Dark Future
Five stories that make Aldous Huxley’s 1932 novel feel like nonfiction.
Posted inEditor's Pick
Paradise Redux
“In Butte County, California, five years after the Camp Fire.”
Posted inEditor's Pick
Does Teaching Literature and Writing Have a Future?
“Learning that one’s job might soon be eliminated by the emergence of an overhyped new technology puts one in good company.”
Posted inEditor's Pick
Old World, Young Africa
“Part one of a series on how the youth boom is changing the continent, and beyond.”
Posted inTop 5
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
This week we have stories from Patrick Fealey, S.C. Cornell, Sterry Butcher, Robin Wall Kimmerer and Jenny Odell, and Francisco Garcia.
Posted inEditor's Pick
Behind F1’s Velvet Curtain
“If you wanted to turn someone into a socialist you could do it in about an hour by taking them for a spin around the paddock of a Formula 1 race.”
