The Electric Typewriter
Great articles and essays by the world's best journalists and writers.21st Jun
by Jeanne Marie Laskas
“Bull riding? Okay, bull riding is 90 percent mental. Anybody tells you any different, they’re lying. Because when you get on your bull, you have to, just, be on your bull.
15th May
25th May
by Jeanne Marie Laskas
On a $500 million man-made island in the frozen Arctic Ocean, in temperatures that hover around forty-five degrees below zero, in perpetual darkness, a tight-knit band of roughnecks spends twelve hours a day, seven days a week, drilling down, down into the earth and pulling up precious crude. If you want to know how badly we need oil, here is your answer.
26th Apr
by Jeanne Marie Laskas
Two centuries of heedless gorging and historic wastefulness has left us with an intractable environmental problem: What do we do with our trash?
