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Our methods of critiquing software are shallow. We have reviews, reactions, tutorials, puff-pieces, and clout-chasers. It’s important to have independent, thorough, and cultural critique, and it should be distributed among those who are building the future (The Paolo Alto Review).

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Is Hunterbrook Media a News Outlet or a Hedge Fund?

Clare Malone newyorker.com

The Lincoln Lawyer: A Novel (Mickey Haller)

Michael Connelly

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Cover of The Lincoln Lawyer: A Novel (Mickey Haller)

Card-handling legends like Jason England and Derek DelGaudio lambasted Madison on Facebook, with DelGaudio calling him “the Milo Yiannopoulos of magic.” Memes were created, jokes were made, and Madison loved every second of it. He used it as fuel for his fire.

Ian Frisch • Magic Is Dead: My Journey into the World's Most Secretive Society of Magicians

Cristina Mendoza Magari

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Reporters and columnists have ingested the taboo on criticising voters and now sound more and more like a party communication department.

This twists the morality of the situation until it goes into reverse. The voter behaviour must be blameless so the party they voted for must therefore be blameless too. Cruelty is validated by voters which means i... See more

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I think there’s an opportunity to create something very substantial here in Manchester: a company that revives local journalism across the country and connects people via storytelling , a means of human communication that goes back much longer than the history of newspapers. As the popularity of American magazine-style journalism shows, people pref... See more

Joshi Herrmann • Irrational optimism and the rebuilding of local journalism

With an opener by Graham Greene (‘One never knows when the blow may fall’ – The Third Man) or Robert Harris (‘The moment I heard how McAra died I should have walked away’ – The Ghost) there is reassurance that we are going to enjoy clear, smooth, swift writing

Louise Willder • Blurb Your Enthusiasm: A Cracking Compendium of Book Blurbs, Writing Tips, Literary Folklore and Publishing Secrets

longtime Clinton foe Jeff Gerth. He’s the Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist