“Mummy loved Andrew, and what Mummy loved, Mummy protected.”
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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
This week, we’re sharing stories from Amanda Mull, Allegra Hobbs, Andrew O’Hagan, Andrew Kay, and Joe Veix.
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Andrew O’Hagan on The Grenfell Tower Fire, One Year Later
“Everyone who died that night died above the tenth floor.”
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The Creator of Bitcoin Comes Clean, Only to Disappear Again
The mysterious creator of bitcoin asks a journalist to help reveal his identity.
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Confessions of a WikiLeaks Ghostwriter: A Cautionary Tale About Agreeing to a Book Deal
I wrote through the night to assemble what we had. The thinness could become a kind of statement, I asserted; it could become a modernist autobiography. But the jokes wouldn’t hold and Julian, despite promising his publishers and me that he’d produce pages, paragraphs, even notes towards his book, produced nothing in all the months […]