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Which Long Magazine Profiles of Aaron Swartz Should You Bother to Read?

Both the New Yorker and The Atlantic published long stories about the late 26-year-old computer whiz Aaron Swartz today. These join lengthy profiles from New York, Rolling Stone, Slate, The Verge and…
SOURCE:gawker.com
PUBLISHED: March 4, 2013
LENGTH: 3 minutes (817 words)

Life Inside the Aaron Swartz Investigation

A reluctant witness's account of a Federal prosecution. If you haven't been following the case, start with the editor's note for context. Quinn Norton's grand jury subpoena (Quinn Norton). Once your…
PUBLISHED: March 3, 2013
LENGTH: 35 minutes (8797 words)

Death by Chamomile? The Alimentary End of Henry Granville Naimbana - Vol. 1, No. 1

“Red Ocean,” Emily Davis Adams On a ship in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, Henry Granville Naimbana lay dying. It was July of 1793, and the vessel the Naimbana was wending its way…
LENGTH: 8 minutes (2097 words)

Suds for Drugs

(Photo: Victor Prado/New York Magazine. Typography by Kevin Dresser.) The call that came in from a local Safeway one day in March 2011 was unlike any the Organized Retail Crime Unit of the Prince…
PUBLISHED: Jan. 6, 2013
LENGTH: 3 minutes (799 words)

Is the Cure for Cancer Inside You?

Claudia Steinman saw her husband’s BlackBerry blinking in the dark. It had gone untouched for several days, in a bowl beside his keys, the last thing on anybody’s mind. But about an hour before…
PUBLISHED: Dec. 21, 2012
LENGTH: 3 minutes (805 words)

The Secret Lives of Stories: Rewriting Our Personal Narratives

Around the time our daughter turned four, she started making what seemed like odd requests. “Tell me about the sad parts of your life,” she would say at the dinner table. Or,…
SOURCE:www.pw.org
LENGTH: 3 minutes (934 words)

The Man Who Charged Himself With Murder

(Photo: Christopher Anderson/Magnum Photos/New York Magazine) Late on the night of December 15, 2010, Trevell Coleman stepped out of the subway station at East 116th Street. The evening was bitterly…
PUBLISHED: Nov. 18, 2012
LENGTH: 3 minutes (833 words)

The Fox Sisters and the Rap on Spiritualism

LENGTH: 10 minutes (2525 words)

The vanishing groves

No event, however momentous, leaves an everlasting imprint on the world. Take the cosmic background radiation, the faint electromagnetic afterglow of the Big Bang. It hangs, reassuringly, in every…
SOURCE:Aeon
LENGTH: 25 minutes (6474 words)
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