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Weekly Geekery

  • Julia Ostmann
  • July 12, 2016
New York Times readers who ignore The Economist: Danger, groupthink ahead. Data suggests police de-escalation can work. Goats have feelings, too. (Sheep, not so much.) Babies brainwash you with their cuteness. If…
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The Rumpus Interview with John Reed

  • Brett Rawson
  • June 27, 2016
John Reed discusses Snowball’s Chance, his parody of Animal Farm, and the lawsuits, debates, and discoveries that followed the book's publication.
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Tinker, Tailor, Novelist, Spy

  • Adam Keller
  • April 8, 2016
It is not so surprising that so many writers have worked in intelligence. Writers create plots; spies uncover them. In a sense, all writers function like spies—observing the people around…
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Video on Demand

  • Brian Hurley
  • December 8, 2015
How many times have we been told that digital technology will fundamentally alter the way we interact with text? There was hypertext fiction, which added hyperlinks so you could choose…
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Hakuna Matata, Shakespeare

  • Charley Locke
  • August 7, 2015
Shakespeare may have felt anxiety, but he was no worrier. More from The Economist on how the word entered our lexicon, in a review of Worrying by Francis O’Gorman. O’Gorman,…
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Lost Words For A Spruce Tree

  • Sarah Edwards
  • June 10, 2014
Over at The Hairpin, Isabelle Fraser interviews Ann Wroe, obituary writer for The Economist. Wroe has written obituaries for J.D. Salinger, Aaron Swartz, and the 25-year old carp that was “England’s best-loved fish”.…
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After Garfield

  • Lauren O'Neal
  • January 10, 2013
The Economist has a comprehensive article up about how the Internet has revolutionized the stagnant comics industry by demolishing barriers to publication and enabling artists to make a profit in new…
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The Deckle Edge

  • Rebecca Rubenstein
  • July 17, 2012
If you’re still reading paper books—and more notably, hardbacks—you’ve probably noticed some of the pages look a little rough around the edges. Two years ago, The Millions published a piece on the…
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