Magazine Rack | selected longer reads for the weekend
Jon Rosen visits the pygmy Mbuti people of northeastern Congo, on Roads & Kingdoms
Steve Danning analyses the fall of Michael Porter’s MonitorGroup consultancy, in Forbes
Julia Phillips takes part in a dog sled race in Siberia, in The Morning News
David Runciman reviews Nassim Taleb’s latest book in The Guardian
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Magazine Rack | selected longer reads for the weekend
Joshua Foer learns a language in 22 hours in The Guardian
Stephen Faris on cyberwar in Syria in Businessweek
Carl Hoffman profiles Elon Musk of Tesla Motors and SpaceX in The Smithsonian
James Crabtree on the social responsibility of India’s new billionaire class in The Financial Times Magazine
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Magazine Rack | selected longer reads for the weekend
William Langewiesche in Vanity Fair on what it’s like to serve in the French Foreign Legion
Misha Glenny on attempts at community policing in Rio’s favelas in The Financial Times Magazine
In Boston Magazine, Patrick Doyle on becoming a priest in Boston amid the sex abuse scandal
Cynthia Gorney reports from post-Fidel Cuba in National Geographic
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Magazine Rack | selected longer reads for the weekend
Sarah Maslin on cheap thrills in Queens in The New York Times
Shane Bauer on solitary confinement on Mother Jones
Evan Osnos on corruption in China in The New Yorker
Tom Sleigh reports from a Somali refugee camp in Nairobi in The Virginia Review Quarterly
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Magazine Rack | selected longer reads for the weekend
Patrick Symmers on Argentine football violence in Outside
David Wise on the CIA burglar who went rogue in The Smithsonian Magazine
In Scientific American, Morgen Peck on the state of Bitcoin, the alternative currency, three years after its inception
Peter Frase on how design will get disrupted by 3-D printing in The Jacobin Magazine
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Magazine Rack | selected longer reads for the weekend
Alison Fearbrother on fixing the Atlantic Ocean’s fish ecosystem in the Washington Monthly
John Seabrook on South Korean pop music’s global influence in The New Yorker
In The London Review of Books, Tom Carver on Kim Philby’s time in Beirut. Kilby wrote for The Economist, freelanced for the British secret service, drank heavily, ran off with a friend’s wife and kept a pet fox
Suzanne Koven interviews Dr Neil Barnard on The Rumpus; Barnard makes a case for veganism
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Magazine Rack | selected longer reads for the weekend
Jill Lepore on the invention of political consulting in the New Yorker
Robert Draper on gerrymandering in The Atlantic
John Sullivan travels to Cuba in The New York Times Magazine
Sam Bidle on the economics behind internet cam girl business on Gizmodo
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Magazine Rack | selected longer reads for the weekend
Devin Friedman parties at the Las Vegas superclub Marquee in GQ: “Would you like bottle service at one of our dance-floor tables? That’ll be another $10,000. How about a 30-liter bottle of champagne to share with a dozen women you’ve never met? $250,000. How about we get Kim Kardashian to come? $100,000.”
Robert Kolker in New York Magazine on the zero-sum education arms race
forcing students to cheat on tests
In Vanity Fair, an excerpt from Randal Stross’s new book on Y Combinator, a tech startup incubator headed by Paul Graham
Peter Pomerantsev visits the Russian community in New York’s Brighton Beach in The London Review of Books
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Magazine Rack | selected longer reads for the weekend
The Economist on the financial clout of the American Catholic Church
An unpublished 1979 interview of Brian Eno by Lester Bangs
John Sullivan profiles the Williams sisters in The New York Times Magazine
Richard Juzwiak on the etiquette of disclosing one’s sexual health on Gawker
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Magazine Rack | selected longer reads for the weekend
Alexandr Osang on the overhyped cult of Usain Bolt in Der Spiegel
Troy Patterson tries to quit smoking in Slate
In The New Republic, Evgeny Morozov on the vacuous self-promoters exploiting the TED brand
Malcolm Gladwell on long-distance running and endurance in The New Yorker
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Magazine Rack | selected longer reads for the weekend
Kurt Eichenwald on Microsoft’s lost decade in Vanity Fair
Paul Barret on the comeback of Karl Rove in Businessweek
In El Pais, Guillermo Abril on a Spanish village which has for years siphoned off millions of euros in subsidies for phantom projects and employed its 500 inhabitants in no-show jobs
Edit Zimmerman on how The Cosmopolitan magazine has conquered the world, in The New York Times Magazine
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Magazine Rack | selected longer reads for the weekend
On The Morning News, Jessica Kane interviews her mother about what it was like to be a secretary at the Playboy offices in 1960s New York
Sam Alipour on sex in the Olympic village, on ESPN
In Men’s Journal, Josh Eels has a wild week in Lagos
Ferdinand Mount critiques Michael Sandel’s What Money Can’t Buy in The Times Literary Supplement
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Magazine Rack | CIA v KGB, The Shard, Romney’s accounts & razing Palestine
CIA veteran Milton Bearden remembers his KGB nemesis in Foreign Policy
Simon Jenkins doesn’t like The Shard, in The Guardian
Nicholas Shaxson on Mitt Romney’s offshore accounts, in Vanity Fair
In The New York Review of Books, David Shulman on razing Palestinian villages in the West Bank
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Magazine Rack | pulling out of Afghanistan, against the death penalty, a Ponzi schemer & a porn star
Dexter Filkins on what will happen to Afghanistan when the US leaves, in The New Yorker
Julie Bindel argues against the death penalty in Standpoint
Guy Lawson tells the story of the Ponzi schemer Sam Israel in The New York Magazine
Wells Tower profiles porn star James Deen in GQ: “Deen lost his virginity at age 12 during a sleepover at a Jewish camp. Not long after, in junior high school, he made enemies of the football team by having sex with a player’s sister in the school pool during gym. He had some drug escapades in junior high. He spent a couple of years in outpatient rehab. Around age 15, he left high school and moved out and spent two years more or less homeless, hanging around with a crew of gutter punks. Relations with his parents remained reasonably cordial. They furnished him with a cell phone, and he periodically snuck into his mom’s house to do laundry.”
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Magazine Rack | Mario Balotelli, credit card theft, Hatikva
Jere Longman profiles Mario Balotelli in The New York Times
Sean Gallagher on credit card theft on Ars Technica
Martin Eiermann interviews the machine learning scientist Stephen Wolfram on The European
Differences between Israelis are exposed when considering changing the national anthem, “Hatikva”. Nathan Jeffay explains in Forward
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