The Nobel Prize website has gone cutting edge, or at least modern. Visitors can, for instance, watch Nobel webcasts on a YouTube channel or Tweet greetings to the new Prize winners. And, as we learned in this very funny video* (inasmuch as economics can be very funny), Editor-in-Chief Adam Smith of the Nobel Prize website [...]
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Nobel Prize site offers multimedia smorgasbord; winner Mario Vargas Llosa shows fidelity to print newspapers
October 7, 2010 – 3:06 pm
What we’re reading, back-to-school edition: prison voices, the failure of imagination in storytelling, and the secret diary of a hedge fund manager
September 2, 2010 – 12:57 pm
Teenage lifeguards abandon their perches to leathery veterans. The county fair’s bounty of funnel cakes and fried beer peters out. Corduroy shopping starts in earnest. The academic year begins. In honor of those entering the hallowed halls of education, reluctantly or with excitement, we offer these takes on prison, the challenges of teaching and what [...]
Give Me Something To Read: collecting long-form journalism online
June 7, 2010 – 4:12 pm
[One in an occasional series of talks with people highlighting long-form journalism online. Prior posts in this series include a look at Gangrey.com and Twitter’s @longreads.] From “a really little town” in Berkshire County, England, Richard Dunlop-Walters hopes to give you something worth checking out at a site called, well, “Give Me Something To Read.” [...]
Adam Hochschild on narrative nonfiction, history and finding the next story
April 30, 2010 – 3:47 pm
Adam Hochschild arrived at the narrative journalism conference at Boston University last weekend feeling liberated after an intense six-year relationship. But soon this writer will be looking to fall in love again. If he doesn’t, he will get anxious. “Sometimes I am able to stay off the streets and out of trouble by writing magazine [...]
Let’s Die Together
April 4, 2008 – 12:00 am
In “Let’s Die Together,” which ran in The Atlantic in May 2007, strangers in Japan join online networks with the express purpose of meeting and killing themselves. David Samuels serves as our guide to an underworld “too familiar” to the police, where real investigation rarely follows because no one has committed a crime. Here are [...]
