The Electric Typewriter
Great articles and essays by the world's best journalists and writers.by Tony Judt
At first I felt a desperate need for the reassurance of light, company, and the simple comforts of human intercourse. But now I have learned to forgo this most nights, finding solace and recourse in my own thoughts.
by Oliver Sacks
It had a huge horned head, a stupendous white body, and an enormous, mild, milk-white face. And in that moment it changed before my eyes, becoming transformed from magnificent to utterly monstrous…
by George Saunders
I came up the aisle quietly, so quietly that I discovered Father X and a nun I’ll call Sister Y in the middle of — well, I couldn’t figure out what they were doing.
by Paul Ford
When it comes to IVF, in-vitro fertilization, nothing is normal. Your world is upside-down. Your doctor compliments your wife on her monkeys. Then, when every dollar and exertion has gone toward a single hour of hope, it begins to snow.
by Frank Bures
Late one night, a thief slipped into the backyard of Brad Rogers’s home, broke into the shed, lifted the Bianchi Sport SS he had owned for 30 years off its hook, then wheeled it out to the alley and disappeared into the darkness…
by Dave Gessner (via Longform)
I said to my wife: “If I were young again, I wouldn’t play that stupid sport.” She looked at me the way she does sometimes. “If you were young again,” she said. “I’d give you a beer, toss you a Frisbee, and you’d chase after it like a border collie.”
by David Sedaris
My father has always had some questionable eating habits, but this is getting ridiculous.
by Rachel Riederer
Do all buses have four tires in one cluster like this, two across and two deep? Two of the tires are sitting on my left leg, and my right leg is wedged into the little crevice between the pairs.
