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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week

by Longreads July 29, 2022October 19, 2022

This week, our editors recommend longreads by Kelsey Vlamis, Brian Feldman, Skip Hollandsworth, Tessa Somberg, and Alison Espach.

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The Secret History Of The Internet’s Funniest Buzzer-Beater

by Peter Rubin July 28, 2022October 19, 2022

Online video in the pre-YouTube era tended to be low-res, anonymous, and utterly without provenance. You didn’t know who made the video, who was in the video, or where the damn thing came from. Well, thanks to this rollicking piece of forensics, now you do — at least for one seminal clip in which an […]

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Quarantine Brain

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands December 7, 2020October 19, 2022

“Nothing made sense this year — unless you were on the internet.”

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The Communal Mind

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands February 19, 2019October 19, 2022

Patricia Lockwood travels through the internet in this piece, first delivered as a lecture at the British Museum in February 2019.

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