Long reads

Essays, features and reporting from magazines and papers: The Atlantic, The New Yorker, Aeon, Quanta, the Economist and more.

Top publicationsThe New York Times 74BBC 33The Guardian 27Wired 27The Wall Street Journal 26Bloomberg 25The Atlantic 24The New Yorker 21The Washington Post 16The Economist 14Atlas Obscura 12Nature 10

514 articles.

• EMACS turns 50

  MIT Technology Review · 2026-10-28 · Page

• The Last of the Three Amigos

  The Atlantic · 2026-07-14 · Page

• The bad science behind expensive nuclear

  Works in Progress · 2026-07-13 · Page

• This Buried Apple Feature Turns an iPhone Into the Perfect Kids’ Dumb Phone

  Wired · 2026-07-09 · Page

• How One German Button Maker Searched the Rivers of the American Midwest for the Shells That Could Make Him a Fortune

  Smithsonian · 2026-07-02 · Page

• The Man Who Created a Written Language for the Cherokee Did It So Efficiently and Elegantly, His Peers Thought It Was Magic

  Smithsonian · 2026-06-11 · Page

• Making AI operational in constrained public sector environments

  MIT Technology Review · 2026-04-17 · Page

• The Peoples of America

  Palladium · 2026-04-17 · Page

• The yoghurt delivery women combatting loneliness in Japan

  BBC · 2026-03-07 · Page

• Opinion | Seven Pages of a Sealed Watergate File Sat Undiscovered. Until Now.

  The New York Times · 2026-02-13 · Page

• Opinion | Seven Pages of a Sealed Watergate File Sat Undiscovered. Until Now.

  The New York Times · 2026-02-09 · Page

• 'Askers' vs. 'Guessers'

  The Atlantic · 2026-01-23 · Page

• Coleman Hughes: Scott Adams Made Me a Better Thinker

  The Free Press · 2026-01-15 · Page

• Why Stoicism is one of the best mind-hacks ever devised | Aeon Essays

  Aeon · 2026-01-13 · Page

• David Deutsch: The Enlightenment, 'irrational memes' and how Wikipedia turned woke

  The Spectator · 2025-12-11 · Page

• The 100 Best TV Episodes of the Century - The Ringer

  The Ringer · 2025-12-03 · Page

• The Making of a Techno-Nationalist Elite - American Affairs Journal

  American Affairs · 2025-11-30 · Page

• Explore How Income Influences Attendance at 139 Top Colleges

  The New York Times · 2025-11-26 · Page

• Best Colleges 2024: After Ivy League, Public Schools Offer Higher ROI

  Bloomberg · 2025-11-26 · Page

• They traveled to Thailand. They wound up cyber scam slaves in Myanmar.

  Reuters · 2025-09-27 · Page

• Why Is Everything Spicy Now?

  The Atlantic · 2025-08-21 · Page

• What's it like to live in a house designed by Frank Lloyd Wright? This 101-year-old knows

  NPR · 2025-08-10 · Page

• The US island that speaks Elizabethan English

  BBC · 2025-03-11 · Page

• JLR whistleblower sacked for publishing concerns about VinFast cars

  BBC · 2024-12-18 · Page

• The beauty of concrete

  Works in Progress · 2024-10-09 · Page

• ‘He was in mystic delirium’: was this hermit mathematician a forgotten genius whose ideas could transform AI – or a lonely madman? | Mathematics

  The Guardian · 2024-09-03 · Page

• How Amazon created the Prime membership program

  Vox · 2024-07-03 · Page

• How the Talmud Became a Best-Seller in South Korea

  The New Yorker · 2024-06-05 · Page

• The Nonprofit Industrial Complex and the Corruption of the American City - American Affairs Journal

  American Affairs · 2024-05-29 · Page

• ‘My songs spread like herpes’: why did satirical genius Tom Lehrer swap worldwide fame for obscurity? | Music

  The Guardian · 2024-05-24 · Page

• Computer Scientists Invent an Efficient New Way to Count

  Quanta · 2024-05-17 · Page

• Kazuo Ishiguro: how I wrote The Remains of the Day in four weeks | Kazuo Ishiguro

  The Guardian · 2024-04-17 · Page

• The Anti-Fragile Brendan Eich | Andrew Beck

  First Things · 2024-04-13 · Page

• The Key to Understanding Vladimir Putin

  The National Interest · 2024-03-24 · Page

• 8 Google Employees Invented Modern AI. Here’s the Inside Story

  Wired · 2024-03-21 · Page

  a profile of the people that co-authored "Attention is all you need" paper that was the turning point in the evolution of LLMs.

• My grandfather’s vagabond past | Aeon Essays

  Aeon · 2023-09-28 · Page

• A Grand Vision for the Impossible

  Quanta · 2023-09-10 · Page

• Dril Is Everyone. More Specifically, He’s a Guy Named Paul.

  The Ringer · 2023-07-16 · Page

• SOUTHERN PRACTICE OF EATING DIRT SHOWS SIGNS OF WANING

  The New York Times · 2023-01-26 · Page

• How Stanford Failed the Academic Freedom Test

  Tablet · 2023-01-13 · Page

• The Age of the Superyacht

  The New Yorker · 2022-12-22 · Page

• I Don’t Want to Be an Internet Person

  Palladium · 2022-12-07 · Page

• All hail our postliberal prince | Capel Lofft

  The Critic · 2022-09-18 · Page

• Princess Mononoke: The masterpiece that flummoxed the US - BBC Culture

  BBC · 2022-07-26 · Page

• 40 Previously Unseen Slim Aarons Photos, to Conjure the Vacation You Wish You Were On - WSJ

  The Wall Street Journal · 2022-06-26 · Page

  Go poolside in these archival images from the photographer-king of warm-weather leisure.

• The Frenchman Who Pioneered the Modern Mercenary Industry

  The National Interest · 2021-11-09 · Page

• Thomas Sowell: Wit & Wisdom

  National Review · 2021-10-25 · Page

• Why Don’t the French Celebrate Lafayette?

  The New Yorker · 2021-09-10 · Page

• 'How a $10k poker win changed how I think' - BBC Future

  BBC · 2021-09-07 · Page

• wild pizzas of southern italy

  Bloomberg · 2021-08-26 · Page