What Happens When You Go Offline By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight 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.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Malcolm Harris, Tom Lamont, Melissa Jeltsen, Moe Tkacik, and Lavinia Spalding.
The Man Who Lived in a Hole in Hampstead Heath By Krista Stevens Highlight “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.”
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Luke O’Brien, Jen Gann, Tom Lamont, Norimitsu Onishi, and Sam Knight.
“This Frenzied, Dirty, Impossible Evacuation” By Michelle Weber Highlight Londoner Tom Lamont spent months reporting for this GQ piece on the ins, outs, and aftermath of the Grenfell Tower disaster.
The Grim Reaper of Pubs By Matt Giles Commentary Tom Lamont’s exhaustive 2015 deep-dive on the death of pub culture in England is worth re-reading, considering the role a bar plays within a community.
