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Top 5 Longreads of the Week

3. The Longest Hunger Strike Ann Neumann | Guernica | January 15, 2013 | 21 minutes (5,454 words) A prisoner in Connecticut who is protesting his conviction by refusing food is now being force-fed.…

Generation Why?

Merrick Morton/Columbia Pictures Jesse Eisenberg as Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of Facebook, and Rooney Mara as his girlfriend Erica in The Social Network How long is a generation these days? I must…
PUBLISHED: Nov. 25, 2010
LENGTH: 22 minutes (5690 words)

The Top 10 Longreads of 2012

9. The Semplica-Girl Diaries George Saunders | The New Yorker | October 8, 2012 | 35 minutes (8,979 words) A father uses his lottery winnings for an extravagant birthday party for his teenage…
LENGTH: 1 minutes (283 words)

Diving into the Shallows | Full Stop

The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our BrainsNicholas Carr [W.W. Norton, 2010] Luminous AirplanesPaul La Farge [Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, 2011] A novel can’t make toast. A novel…
PUBLISHED: March 13, 2012
LENGTH: 10 minutes (2706 words)

Learning to Smoke

Originally published in the March 2008 issue Five weeks ago, I was working the elliptical, my feet throbbing out those nasty loops. The entire machine panted its report, the morning mantra: down,…
PUBLISHED: Jan. 4, 2010
LENGTH: 4 minutes (1185 words)

The Mystery of the Millionaire Metaphysician

The search for an amateur philosopher In the July/August 2001 issue of the late, great magazine Lingua Franca, James Ryerson published an enthralling article about an anonymous benefactor who was…
PUBLISHED: Feb. 10, 2012
LENGTH: 22 minutes (5646 words)

Insider Baseball

1.It occurred to me, in California in June and in Atlanta in July and in New Orleans in August, in the course of watching first the California primary and then the Democratic and Republican…
PUBLISHED: Oct. 27, 1988
LENGTH: 39 minutes (9980 words)

Learning to Smoke

Originally published in the March 2008 issue Five weeks ago, I was working the elliptical, my feet throbbing out…
PUBLISHED: Jan. 4, 2010
LENGTH: 4 minutes (1185 words)
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