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150 Essential Articles and Essays
150 great articles and essays by the world's best writers
Psychology
The Blind Man Who Learned To See
by Michael Finkel
Friendship, Schmoozing & Social Climbing
by Glenn O’Brien
Mixed Feelings
by Sunny Bains
Why Men Lie
by Vince Passaro
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History
The Worst Mistake in History
by Jared Diamond
1491
by Charles C. Mann
The Origin of Aids
by Tom Curtis
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Politics
The Oil We Eat
by Richard Manning
Inside the Bohemian Grove
by Philip Weiss
The Dark Side of Dubai
by Johann Hari
The Case Against Babies
by Joy Williams
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Information
What Defines a Meme?
by James Gleick
How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read
by Pierre Bayard
Mother Earth Mother Board
by Neal Stephenson
The Omega Glory
by Michael Chabon
The Movie Set That Ate Itself
by Michael Idov
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Work
Phoning It In
by Stanley Bing
Nickel And Dimed
by Barbara Ehrenreich
The Loading Dock Manifesto
by John Hyduk
Something’s Got to Give
by Darcy Frey
Night-Shifting for the Hip Fleet
by Mark Jacobson
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Adventure
Death of an Innocent
by Jon Krakauer
Adventures in My Bed
by Bucky McMahon
Home
by Chris Jones
On Tipping in Cuba
by Chris Turner
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The Female Body
The Female Body
by Margaret Atwood
A Thin Line Between Mother and Daughter
by Jennifer Egan
Hello, I Am Fat
by Lindy West
Either/Or
by Ariel Levy
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War
M
by John Sack
The Vietnam Syndrome
by Christopher Hitchens
Bystanders to Genocide
by Samantha Power
Paintballing with Hezbollah
by Mitchell Prothero
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Memoir
How a Holiday Party Went Wrong
by George Saunders
Mistakes Were Made, Errors Happened
by Karl Taro Greenfeld
My Mom Couldn’t Cook
by Tom Junod
I See a Little Silhouetto of a Man
by Ian Frazier
Living With Geese
by Paul Theroux
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Money
To Have is To Owe
by David Graeber
Freakonomics
by Stephen J. Dubner and Steven D. Levitt
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Sex
Hard Core
by Natasha Vargas-Cooper
What Do Women Want?
by Daniel Bergner
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Drugs
Me & My Monkey
by Anonymous
The Electric Cough-Syrup Acid Test
by Jim Hogshire
Opium Made Easy
by Michael Pollan
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Race
No Man's Land
by Eula Bliss
36 Tattoos
by David Shields
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The City
Downtown is for People
by Jane Jacobs
Here is New York
by E.B. White
Up in the Old Hotel
by Joseph Mitchell
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Computer Games
Video Games: The Addiction
by Tom Bissell
Spacewar
by Stewart Brand
The Curse of Cow Clicker
by Jason Tanz
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Joan Didion
Goodbye to All That
After Life
On Keeping a Notebook
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Hunter S. Thompson
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Strange Rumblings in Aztlan
The Kentucky Derby
Song of the Sausage Creature
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Tom Wolfe
The Birth of 'The New Journalism'
The Me Decade
The Secret Vice
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Elizabeth Gilbert
The Muse of Coyote Ugly Saloon
Long Day's Journey
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David Sedaris
Jesus Shaves
Six to Eight Black Men
Undecided Voters
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Walter Kirn
The Life
Lost in the Meritocracy
The Autumn of the Multitaskers
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John McPhee
A Fleet of One
Atchafalaya
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Zadie Smith
The Rise of the Essay
Speaking in Tongues
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Tony Judt
Israel: The Alternative
Bring Back the Rails!
What We've Learned, If Anything
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Gene Weingarten
Fatal Distraction
Why Not the Worst?
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Devin Friedman
Unbearable Awkwardness of Being
The Last Don
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Lucy Grealy
Autobiography of a Body
Mirrorings
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Nick Tosches
If You Knew Sushi
Confessions of an Opium-Seeker
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Lawrence Weschler
Double Vision
Inhaling the Spore
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Annie Dillard
This is the Life
The Force That Drives the Flower
Seeing
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P.J. O'Rourke
I Sing of Fizzy Fluid Retention
Zion's Vital Signs
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Gary Wolf
Venture Kapital
The Wisdom of Saint Marshall
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David Dobbs
The Science of Success
Beautiful Brains
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Burkhard Bilger
The Egg Men
The Possibilian
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David Foster Wallace
Tense Present
Shipping Out
FX Porn
The Capital T Truth
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Malcolm Gladwell
Java Man
The Naked Face
Designs for Working
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Susan Orlean
Life's Swell
The Place to Disappear
The American Male at Age Ten
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John Jeremiah Sullivan
Feet in Smoke
Leaving Reality
Violence of the Lambs
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Michael Lewis
Beware of Greeks Bearing Bonds
When Irish Eyes Are Crying
Wall Street on the Tundra
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Jeanne Marie Laskas
This Is Paradise
Empire of Ice
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Chuck Klosterman
Things We Think We Know
Real Genius
This is Emo
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Matt Taibbi
The Great Bubble Machine
The Rip-Off in Iraq
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Kevin Fedarko
The Coldest War
High in Hell
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Evan Wright
Maxed out
The Killer Elite
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A.J. Jacobs
My Life as a Hot Woman
How I Stopped Multitasking
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Po Bronson
How Not to Talk to Your Kids
Building the VW of PC's
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Tom Chiarella
A Date with a Perfect Stranger
The $20 Theory of the Universe
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Jonathan Franzen
Liking Is for Cowards
The Comfort Zone
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Meghan Daum
Music is My Bag
My Misspent Youth
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Geoff Dyer
Coffee and a Doughnut
My Secret Life of crime
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William Langewiesche
The Shipbreakers
How to Get a Nuclear Bomb
The World in its Extreme
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Michael Paterniti
The Last Meal
A Voyage to the Sun
Never Forget
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Mark Bowden
Blackhawk Down
The Last Ace
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Venkat Rao
Welcome to the Future Nauseous
A Brief History of the Corporation
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