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Lev Grossman

Tech

2045: The Year Man Becomes Immortal

Ray Kurzweil and the Singularity; when will our minds meld with the machine?

Lev Grossman Time Feb 2011 Permalink

Business Tech

The Men Who Stole the World

What happened to the minds behind Napster, Gnutella, WinAmp, and BitTorrent after their creations irrevocably changed business and culture.

Lev Grossman Time Nov 2010 10min Permalink

Arts History World

The Death of a Civil Servant

An uneasy friendship forms in colonial Ceylon between the future husband of Virgina Woolf and a socially repulsive police magistrate.

Lev Grossman The Believer May 2010 25min Permalink