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Long Reads

Ghosting: O’Hagan’s Julian Assange

by Paddy Johnson on February 24, 2014
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Andrew O’Hagan, the once anonymous ghostwriter who collaborated with WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange on his abortive 2011 autobiography, broke his long silence on the project this weekend. Putting to bed over 26,000 words on the subject of his months working with Assange, the hacker is described by turns as funny, lazy, courageous, paranoid, narcissistic, driven by spectacle, dishonest, and manipulative. The story focuses on the collapse of the one of the most high-profile books deals of recent times—2.5 million with the publisher Canongate.

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Weekend #longreads: Making Connections

by Corinna Kirsch on April 20, 2013
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This weekend we’re reading Malcolm Harris’ “So You Want to Be a #Longreads Superstar,” Caitlin Jones’ “Conceptual Blind Spots”, and B. Wurtz’s “History Works”.

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Art World Survival Ideas on the Brooklyn Rail: Part One

by Whitney Kimball on February 11, 2013
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Thanks to Martha Schwendener, this month’s Brooklyn Rail includes a long list of alternatives to the art world status quo from a wide variety of thinkers– Artforum editors, academia, activists, gender studies theorists, museums, co-ops, artists– just to name a few. It’s a nice change from last month’s crisis-themed edition. I’ve rounded up the must-reads from the first half, with more to come.

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Must-Read: Evgeny Morozov Explains Why Life Shouldn’t Be Like Kickstarter

by Whitney Kimball on February 5, 2013
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Merry Christmas, thinking, rational people. Evgeny Morozov has written the most satisfying takedown of quack internet moralizing to date.

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#longreads: Robert Mapplethorpe by Gary Indiana

by Corinna Kirsch on November 16, 2012
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If you’re into art world fan fiction—or would like to be—imagine Gary Indiana dishing gossip with Robert Mapplethorpe in the 1980s. Well, that interview between the irreverent duo did happen.

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#Longreads: The End, The End, The End

by Paddy Johnson on November 9, 2012
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Got a bit of extra time to read a misguided reflection on post-apocalyptic and post-catastrophic novels?

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#Longreads: Understanding Owls

by Whitney Kimball on October 26, 2012
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In which we send you on your weekend with our favorite long read. This week, it’s David Sedaris.

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