Kate Reading List — Readability

How to Succeed in Business

By Anne Applebaum June 6, 2013

Sheryl Sandberg; drawing by James Ferguson To begin with, a quiz. Who wrote the following sentences: Lee Iacocca, Jack Welch, or Sheryl Sandberg?(a) When communicating hard truths, less is often…

newrepublic.com 20min

The Lethality of Loneliness

By JUDITH SHULEVITZ May 13, 2013

Sometime in the late ’50s, Frieda Fromm-Reichmann sat down to write an essay about a subject that had been mostly overlooked by other psychoanalysts up to that point. Even Freud had only…

tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com 1min

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travelandleisure.com 12min

Eating in Dubai

By Gary Shteyngart

“Do You Have the Code?” It is a ninety-five-degree October day in Dubai. I am standing on the back lawn of the world’s tallest building, the Burj Khalifa, the one scaled by Tom…

m.newyorker.com 32min

Bring Up the Bodies

By Nicholas Schmidle May 6, 2013

After the conflict in Kosovo ended, in June, 1999, a tribunal in The Hague set out to punish the perpetrators of atrocities. Louise Arbour, the lead prosecutor, described Kosovo—a former province of…

redbullmusicacademy.com 25min

Brian Eno: Taking Manhattan (By Strategy)

By Simon Reynolds

By Simon Reynolds From 1978 to 1984, Brian Eno lived and worked in NYC. As celebrated music journalist Simon Reynolds writes, the music he helped create there has influenced generations. It could be…

grantland.com 18min

Out in the Great Alone

I landed in Anchorage in the middle of the night. The next morning, I drove an hour north to Wolf Lake Airport, a private airfield near Wasilla. You know those old photo-backdrop screens that little…

buzzfeed.com 26min

David Lee Roth Will Not Go Quietly

By Steve Kandell April 12, 2013

There are many things to admire about David Lee Roth's home. There's the lushly landscaped property, three football fields' worth by his estimation, hidden behind a 9-foot ivy-covered wall on an…