New Yorker
Apr 2011
A profile of Alexey Navalny, a Russian anti-corruption crusader.
Friday, April 26
The Boston Globe
Apr 2013
When a 26-year-old Chinese entrepreneur pulled over to answer a text message he was carjacked by Boston bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev. This is what happened that night and how he escaped.
GQ
Apr 2013
Aside from the wealthiest players, nine out of 10 NFL athletes are likely to be insolvent within 10 years of retirement. A new executive MBA program aims to change that.
Thursday, April 25
2012 Livingston Awards Finalists
The Livingston Awards honor the year’s best work by journliasts under the age of 35. Finalists in local, national, and international reporting were announced today—see the full list.
New York
Apr 2013
Dinner with the novelist, the book critic and “Myshkin, a 14-year-old female dachshund who is deaf but decidedly not mute.”
Our sponsor this week is Aeon, a great new digital magazine covering ideas and culture. Aeon publishes an original essay every weekday, several of which have been picked for Longform. Here are three recent favorites:
Spaced Out, by Greg Klerkx
Living in space was meant to be our next evolutionary step. What happened to the dream of the final frontier?
There’s an App for That, by John-Paul Flintoff
What to eat, when to meditate and whether to call your parents: can self-monitoring tools make a difference?
This Is Humankind, by Polina Aronson
If my grandfather could survive the Siege of Leningrad and still distinguish between a German and a Nazi, so can I.
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Wednesday, April 24
Longform Podcast: Ted Conover
Episode 38: Ted Conover, author of five books and the recent Harper's article "The Way of All Flesh."
"My identity is a rubber band. It can stretch that way and it can stretch this way. When I get home it goes mostly back into the shape it's been, but not completely. And it's that not completely that is interesting and makes me who I am."
Thanks to TinyLetter for sponsoring this week's episode!
Show notes and links:
- tedconover.com
- Personal Archive
- [1:00] "The Way of All Flesh" (Harper's • April 2013) (sub. required)
- [3:30] "Power Steer" (Michael Pollan • New York Times Magazine • March 2002)
- [15:00] Coyotes: A Journey Across Borders with America's Illegal Migrants (1987)
- [33:30] "Enter the Chicken" (Burkhard Bilger • Harper's • March 1999)
- [34:00] Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing (2000)
- [36:15] The Routes of Man: Travels in the Paved World (2011)
- [42:30] "A Snitch's Dilemma" (New York Times Magazine • July 2012)
- [49:00] Rolling Nowhere: Riding the Rails with America's Hoboes (1984)
