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New Guardian Long Read Magazine is out now, ft. amazing writing by @oliverburkeman, @SophieElmhirst, @samanth_s, @demarionunn, @samirashackle, @sirin_kale and many others! Check it out here guardianbookshop.com/the-guardian-l…
David Wolf
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David Wolf
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Editor @gdnlongread
- I regret to announce that this is a 'professional news' tweet. However, I am really happy to announce that I am the new editor of @gdnlongread. I will continue to sit in the same chair and do similar things, but with an increased level of authoritarian menace
- If you are attempting a devastating takedown of a book of essays, it is very, very important not to include the sentence "Since Montaigne, the best essays have been, as the French word suggests, trials, attempts."
- Big fan of this question from the Eton Scholarship Exam in 1943
- We've been hoping to do this for years, so I'm really excited to say the first issue of The Guardian Long Read Magazine – ft 10 of our best pieces from this year, with incredible design by @chrisclarkecc & Bruno Haward – is finally here! Find out more: theguardian.com/longreadmag
- This is huge: Yanis Varoufakis's wife may be the Greek woman with a thirst for knowledge in 'Common People' by Pulp
- “If Newt Gingrich is the smartest guy in the room, leave that room.” nybooks.com/articles/2012/…Clinton is a fox who knows many things you can fact check. Trump is a hedgehog who knows one very big thing: We need change.
- In a world of cringing embarrassment about the value of the humanities, it's a tonic to read Iris Murdoch unashamedly saying that nothing matters more (even if she may be somewhat overstating it)
- Just how bad are things getting under Modi? "In its 72 years as a free country, India has never faced a more serious crisis." This is an incredible, wide-ranging piece by @samanth_s about India's slide into fascism
