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2018A New History of Arabia, Written in Stone (newyorker.com)
55 points | 3 years ago with 15 comments
2011Farther Away: “Robinson Crusoe,” David Foster Wallace, and Solitude (newyorker.com)
55 points | 4 years ago with 4 comments
2005The Lost City of Z (newyorker.com)
55 points | 9 years ago with 4 comments
2014Project Cybersyn and the Origins of the Big Data Nation (newyorker.com)
55 points | 2 years ago with 39 comments
2012Ithkuil – An amateur linguist loses control of the language he invented (newyorker.com)
53 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 2 comments
2008The Running Novelist (newyorker.com)
51 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 5 comments
2012Spoiled Rotten (newyorker.com)
51 points | 8 years ago with 30 comments
2014The Programmer's Price (newyorker.com)
50 points | 4 years ago with 71 comments
1987Atchafalaya (newyorker.com)
49 points | 5 years ago with 24 comments
2015The disappearance of the world’s greatest free diver (newyorker.com)
48 points | 3 years ago with 48 comments
2018The Mind-Expanding Ideas of Andy Clark (newyorker.com)
47 points | 4 years ago with 3 comments
2009The Unfinished: David Foster Wallace’s Struggle to Surpass Infinite Jest (newyorker.com)
47 points | 7 years ago with 50 comments
2011How to Be Good: The Philosopher Derek Parfit (newyorker.com)
46 points | 4 years ago with 6 comments
1962The Soul of Bouillabaisse Town (newyorker.com)
45 points | 7 years ago with 8 comments
2017The Family That Built an Empire of Pain (newyorker.com)
45 points | 4 years ago with 16 comments
2016What Makes People Feel Upbeat at Work (newyorker.com)
45 points | 4 years ago with 7 comments
2018The Maraschino Mogul (newyorker.com)
44 points | 2 years ago with 16 comments
2009An Appalachian gunsmith’s robot army (newyorker.com)
43 points | 10 years ago with 51 comments
2014Graphene: Fast, Strong, Cheap, and Impossible to Use (newyorker.com)
42 points | 4 years ago with 8 comments
2001Pimps and Dragons (newyorker.com)
42 points | 10 years ago with 14 comments
2012An Open Letter to Wikipedia (newyorker.com)
41 points | 6 years ago with 29 comments
2007The Jefferson Bottles (newyorker.com)
41 points | 8 years ago with 13 comments
2016Unearthing the City Grid That Would Have Been in Central Park (newyorker.com)
40 points | 3 years ago with 3 comments
2014Why Walking Helps Us Think (newyorker.com)
40 points | 5 years ago with 0 comments
2016The Secrets of the Wood Wide Web (newyorker.com)
40 points | 6 years ago with 1 comments
2008The Itch (newyorker.com)
36 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 3 comments
2014Ayn Rand reviews children’s movies (newyorker.com)
31 points | 2 years ago with 43 comments
1995Double Mystery: the nature of twins (newyorker.com)
29 points | 2 years ago with 10 comments
2019Clarence Thomas’s Radical Vision of Race (newyorker.com)
26 points | 2 years ago with 9 comments
2004The Hunt for the Giant Squid (newyorker.com)
25 points | 1 year ago with 4 comments
2011How the Internet Gets Inside Us (newyorker.com)
25 points | 1 year ago with 9 comments
1957The Duke in His Domain: Marlon Brando, on Location (newyorker.com)
24 points | 1 year ago with 2 comments
2004The Silver Thief (newyorker.com)
23 points | 1 year ago with 1 comments
2018I use a hair dryer to make roast chicken (newyorker.com)
21 points | 2 years ago with 28 comments
2014One of a Kind (newyorker.com)
20 points | 1 year ago with 5 comments
1994Forty-One False Starts (newyorker.com)
19 points | 2 years ago with 0 comments
2013Moscow’s Metro Dogs (newyorker.com)
18 points | 2 years ago with 21 comments
2013Walking Normally: The Facts (newyorker.com)
17 points | 2 years ago with 2 comments
2013Draft No. 4 (newyorker.com)
16 points | 1 year ago with 0 comments
2011To Catch a Beat (newyorker.com)
15 points | 2 years ago with 0 comments
2018On Being the Ideal Reader of Tom Wolfe’s School of New Journalism (newyorker.com)
12 points | 1 year ago with 8 comments
2015The Pursuit of Beauty (newyorker.com)
11 points | 2 years ago with 1 comments
2019How the Little Ice Age Changed History (newyorker.com)
11 points | 2 years ago with 4 comments
1933Legends of Lizzie (newyorker.com)
10 points | 1 year ago with 0 comments
1936Farewell, My Lovely (newyorker.com)
0 points | 1 year ago with 16 comments

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