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George Packer in 2014, in a New Yorker piece detailing Amazon’s takeover of the book industry. With this data,
Jia Tolentino • Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion
Briefly Carleton considered the other man, of whom he’d made such a study he might have been appointed professor of Thomas Studies at the University of Essex. He knew, for example, that Thomas was a confirmed bachelor, as they say, never seen in the company of a beautiful young person or a stately older one; that he had about him the melancholy rel
... See moreSarah Perry • Enlightenment

It has short-circuited the normal mechanisms for how the United States as a nation goes to war, and turned the American president into the final arbiter of whether specific people in far-off lands live or die.
Mark Mazzetti • The Way of the Knife: The CIA, a Secret Army, and a War at the Ends of the Earth
She peered at men in the grocery store and wondered if they were undercover cops who knew that she lived with the man who had started the Silk Road.
Nick Bilton • American Kingpin: Catching the Billion-Dollar Baron of the Dark Web

railed as he
Walter Isaacson • Steve Jobs
