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The most backwards process imaginable. Walk us through it starting with college. Going with college, itwas just my 10 year reunion. I did not attend. I graduated in 2009 from wesley and university with a degree in sociology. And i just read in the wall street journal 2009 was the worst job market for generations so i had the good fortune to walk straight into that. And after a bunch of internships and living with my parents, working in music, i work in publishing at a Literary Agency for a few y...

Counsel of a newspaper. In fact, i dont know of any precedent for this but david mccraw is not just any deputy general counsel. Hes the newsroom lawyer for the New York Times where he has worked for a decade and a half now. That means he gets to do a lot of interesting and stressfulthings. He gets to defend the times against actual and threatened suits, advise reporters on stories, file suits seeking government documents, hidden from view and work for the release of journalists kidnapped by extr...

Settle down in a comfy chair with some of the week’s best longreads.

In early December 1938, the critic and editor Malcolm Cowley set out to compile a form of end-of-year list for The New Republic. He and the other editors wrote to their friends seeking to compile a list of recent “Books That Changed Our Minds.” They didn’t debate what it would mean to call their choices the best. The books simply needed to have made them think in a new way. Eighty-five years later, we’re attempting something similar with our list of books of the year....

From Israeli military bases to Silicon Valley corporate campuses, warfare has simply become a white-collar tech job.

It’s a devilish question that raises various related — and equally existential — questions about art’s purpose and identity. After all, if we can’t even agree on what art is, how on earth are we supposed to judge whether the art made by AI is any good? For those who haven’t heard the apocalyptic wa...

The new age arrives on no specific day; it creeps up slowly, and then pounces suddenly. And so, it seems, with A.I.

"I get to put all of my attention and focus onto this play," says Sydney Lemmon. "And that's a really good excuse to not be on my phone ever."

Books like "The List" , "The Startup Wife", and "Yellowface" are marking a new trend in books about the tech industry and social media.

But hearing the originator in person, with all that is missing as well as the new qualities of continuity, age, rust, wear, and wearing away—it’s moving, almost to the point of awe, or holiness. All the more so the better you know the recorded originals. The compensations or losses are the point. Plus the fact of the continuity of the person—that they are still here, performing for you.