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Buffett’s genius was largely a genius of character—of patience, discipline, and rationality.

Roger Lowenstein • Buffett: The Making of an American Capitalist

Unfinished Business: On and Off the Court with the 1990-91 Boston Celtics

Michael Lewis was an art history major at Princeton. During his senior year, while working on a 166-page thesis paper on how the Italian sculptor Donatello took inspiration from the ancient Greeks and Romans, he discovered he loved the process of researching and writing. He said, “I remember thinking, ‘I now know what I’d like to do for a living: w... See more

Billy Oppenheimer • SIX at 6: How to Conform, Get Trapped, Not Make It, Learn Forever, Be True to Your Interests, and Make a Life

Gary leaned back in his chair as Serrin leaned forward in his.

Nick Bilton • American Kingpin: Catching the Billion-Dollar Baron of the Dark Web

Landlords were major players in distributing the spoils. They decided who got to live where. And their screening practices (or lack thereof) revealed why crime and gang activity or an area’s civic engagement and its spirit of neighborliness could vary drastically from one block to the next.

Matthew Desmond • Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City

under 2,000 pounds and under $2,000”—were

John Doerr • Measure What Matters: How Google, Bono, and the Gates Foundation Rock the World with OKRs

A Sense of Where You Are: Bill Bradley at Princeton

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As a freshman at Lower Merion, Bryant made Downer’s varsity squad, starting and averaging 18 points for a team that went 4-20.

Jeff Pearlman • Three-Ring Circus: Kobe, Shaq, Phil, and the Crazy Years of the Lakers Dynasty

I am fortunate to count several tremendous sportswriters as friends, and this concept—legacy—is something we’ve broached at length. It’s actually (in a way) one of the flaws of the medium. When one writes the story of an era, he is charged not with dishing out hagiography, but an honest, sincere, detailed recollection of a period. In doing so, howe