Transcript: The Julian Assange Interview Q: Here you are facing, possibly facing, very, very serious charges indeed, double rape even, is a possibility—and you are saying: “I will not go back to the country where those offenses are alleged to have been carried out to face the music.” JA: No, I have never said that. […]
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Transcript: The Julian Assange Interview
Transcript: The Julian Assange Interview Q: Here you are facing, possibly facing, very, very serious charges indeed, double rape even, is a possibility—and you are saying: “I will not go back to the country where those offenses are alleged to have been carried out to face the music.” JA: No, I have never said that. […]
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Out on the Ice
Out on the Ice Brian Burke isn’t just a legend of the NHL. He’s a fists-up, knock-your-teeth-out gladiator. But when his hockey-loving son came out of the closet and died soon after, he was thrust into a strange new role: advocate for gays in a macho sports culture. He’s no cheerleader—he looks like he hates […]
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Out on the Ice
Out on the Ice Brian Burke isn’t just a legend of the NHL. He’s a fists-up, knock-your-teeth-out gladiator. But when his hockey-loving son came out of the closet and died soon after, he was thrust into a strange new role: advocate for gays in a macho sports culture. He’s no cheerleader—he looks like he hates […]
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putthison: The Economist: The Lounge Suit, Battle-Dress of the World’s Businessmen, is 150 Years Old – Possibly This is a totally fascinating history of the suit from the 18th century to today.
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Patrick Doyle: Top 5 Longreads from 2010
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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laphamsquarterly: Barbara Newhall Follett, the child prodigy who began her first book The House Without Windows at the age of 8, and the subject of Paul Collins’ essay “Vanishing Act.” “My dreams are going through their death flurries. I thought they were all safely buried, but sometimes they stir in their grave, making my heartstrings […]
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Group Home's Unorthodox Sex Policy Disquiets Mother
Group Home’s Unorthodox Sex Policy Disquiets Mother Kevin Rouse’s story reveals the difficulties of dealing with a population of men with adult sexual urges and often childlike thinking. The staff of the Human Development Center enacted a bold and unorthodox policy permitting sex between residents, but experts who deal with the developmentally disabled question whether […]
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Mallary Tenore: My Top 5 Media Longreads of 2010
Mallary Tenore covers media news for the Poynter Institute’s Poynter.org. *** Timothy Lavin: The Listener, The Atlantic, Jan/Feb 2010 Refreshing to see well-written stories about lesser-known media phenomena like Coast to Coast AM. James Verini: Lost Exile, Vanity Fair, Feb. 23, 2010 Verini does a great job describing what the death of the paper (in this case, Russia’s English-language […]
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Bargain Junkies Are Beating Retailers at Their Own Game
Bargain Junkies Are Beating Retailers at Their Own Game “These wack-jobs who spend 20 hours a week stacking coupons? That stuff drives us batty,” says John Morgan, executive director of the Association of Coupon Professionals. “They dance all over the rules. These zealots may be following the letter of the law, but I don’t think […]