Each year, comedy hypnotists bring thousands of willing participants on stage to be hypnotized in front of crowds—harmless fun or risky business?
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All Work and No Play
“Video games, like any creative product, reflect and refract the conditions of their production. Today, what they most resemble is twenty-first-century work.”
Posted inNewsletter
Outsourcing Your Appetite to YouTube
In this essay, co-published with Cake Zine, Adam Dalva writes about Ozempic, his fixation with watching food influencers eat, and a visit to a steakhouse.
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What It’s Like to Be a Professional Card Counter
“I get kicked out of a lot of casinos.”
Posted inReading List
Dimes, Dunks, and Devotion: A Basketball Reading List
Seven essays that go beyond the box score.
Posted inFeature
Letter from Manhattan 2
On trying to be a “world citizen”—and how expat life rarely delivers on its promises.
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This Woman Inspired One of the First Hit Video Games by Mapping the World’s Longest Cave
“Patricia Crowther’s ex-husband coded her cave maps into one of the first hit adventure games in the 1970s, and she had no idea.”
Posted inCuration, Nonfiction, Top 5
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
This week, we’re sharing stories from Jason Fagone, Shannon Gormley, Nickole Brown, Jason Kehe, and Abe Streep.
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Knock It Off!
“Getting copied is devastating—but not necessarily illegal. Who owns what in an era of unprecedented mass consumption?”
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The Wild West of NBA Jump Balls
“Basketball’s most iconic tradition is also one of its oldest and most curious events, characterized by the same foggy rule interpretations, quirky styles, and chicanery as the first jump balls ever tossed.”
