#magazine

The COVID-19 Recession May Change The Way Americans Spend Forever

— The COVID-19 Recession May Change The Way Americans Spend Forever, Anne Helen Peterson in BuzzFeed News

Robert Pattinson in Isolation

— Robert Pattinson in Isolation, Zach Baron in GQ

The real Lord of the Flies

— The real Lord of the Flies, Rutner Bregman in The Guardian

Here's How Those Hot Jigsaw Puzzles Are Made

— Here's How Those Hot Jigsaw Puzzles Are Made, Amie Tsang in The New York Times

PearShaped Magazine Archive

When I was at university, me and some friends founded a music magazine and ran it for a few years before handing it off to the next generation of students when we graduated. It ran on for a few years after we left and then closed. I noticed recently that the hosting was about to expire, so I exported the magazine's content and turned it into a basic static site so it wasn't lost forever. It's the PearShaped Magazine Archive.

Jacob Rees-Mogg Profile

James Meek (author of Private Island: Why Britain Now Belongs To Someone Else) did a great profile of new Leader of the Commons, Jacob Rees-Mog. It sums up the argument incredibly well that the stuffy all-English persona he affects in Parliament is at odds with his source of income in a transnational investment firm. Meek goes deep on the problematic network of offshore financial instruments used to shroud Mogg's investment firm in secrecy, which makes sense given his work on Private Island. Meek goes beyond that oft-bandied about analysis, though. He argues that these "two Jacobs" are two sides of...

The Sinking of the USS Fitzgerald

For some reason I feel really compelled by accounts of the crash involving the USS Fitzgerald that killed sseven crew members. It's a really interesting case of how the build up of lots of little decisions, shortcuts, putting crew under pressure, can lead to something dreadful. I first heard about it in detail from this amazing This American Life segment by Stephanie Foo. More recently though, ProPublica published this incredibly detailed and moving account of the incident. I love things that dig into awful events so meticulously. Another example is The Death of A President by William Manchester, Secret Service...