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Posted inTop 5

The Top 5 Longreads of the Week

by Longreads October 21, 2022November 9, 2022

This week’s list features stories from Melissa del Bosque, Jeff Maysh, Nathan Munn, Katherine Rundell, and Tom Lamont.

Posted inEditor's Pick

Inside Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney’s Great Wrexham Gambit

by Carolyn Wells October 20, 2022November 16, 2022

“What happens when two Hollywood actors who know nothing about soccer buy a middling pro team in Wales?”

Posted inEditor's Pick

A Day in the Life of (Almost) Every Vending Machine in the World

by Carolyn Wells April 14, 2022October 19, 2022

Tom Lamont’s insightful essay makes you consider both the people standing in front of the vending machine and those behind its inception. The midget gems could go anywhere, really, and today he decided to give them a try in primetime – halfway along, halfway up. In vending, this part of the job, as delicate as […]

Posted inNonfiction

Graded by an Algorithm

by Carolyn Wells February 24, 2021October 14, 2022

“Algorithms…don’t go on mutant rampages, they only sometimes reveal and amplify the cruddy human biases that underpin them.”

Posted inNonfiction, Top 5

The Top 5 Longreads of the Week

by Longreads February 19, 2021October 19, 2022

This week, we’re sharing stories from David Armstrong and Marshall Allen, Jesselyn Cook, Jason Sheehan, Tom Lamont, and Heather Stokes.

Posted inHighlight, Nonfiction, Quote Posts, Quotes, Technology

What Happens When You Go Offline

by Aaron Gilbreath May 20, 2020October 19, 2022

The Information Age is also the age of information overload. Here’s what one person learned about the human brain after cleansing himself of screens.

Posted inNonfiction, Top 5

The Top 5 Longreads of the Week

by Longreads March 6, 2020October 19, 2022

This week, we’re sharing stories from Malcolm Harris, Tom Lamont, Melissa Jeltsen, Moe Tkacik, and Lavinia Spalding.

Posted inHighlight, Quote Posts, Quotes

The Man Who Lived in a Hole in Hampstead Heath

by Krista Stevens March 5, 2020October 19, 2022

“He knew there were a lot of people just like him, irregularly employed, regulars in pubs, the owners of passports and phones and all the right charger leads, only with nowhere stable to live.”

Posted inNonfiction, Top 5

The Top 5 Longreads of the Week

by Longreads December 1, 2017October 19, 2022

This week, we’re sharing stories from Luke O’Brien, Jen Gann, Tom Lamont, Norimitsu Onishi, and Sam Knight.

Posted inCurrent Events, investigations, Nonfiction, Quotes

“This Frenzied, Dirty, Impossible Evacuation”

by michelleweber November 29, 2017October 19, 2022

Londoner Tom Lamont spent months reporting for this GQ piece on the ins, outs, and aftermath of the Grenfell Tower disaster.

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