What We Like Right Now
Our favorite picks for the week of March 16, curated by Slate writers and editors.
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Here are our favorite stories, podcasts, and videos from around the Web for the week of March 16.
- Assistant editor Miriam Krule likes …
“Harper Lee’s Abandoned True-Crime Novel” by Casey N. Cep, the New Yorker
“This post on Harper Lee’s OTHER unpublished book, an insane true-crime-story-turned-fiction, is fascinating.”
- Senior technology writer Will Oremus likes …
“Demise of Gigaom Doesn’t Faze Its Rivals” by Farhad Manjoo, the New York Times
“Good Farhad Manjoo piece on how GigaOm fell apart. It wasn’t about the journalism.”
- Culture Gabfest host Stephen Metcalf likes …
“Iran, Inequality, and the Battle of American Norms” by Adam Gopnik, the New Yorker
“ ‘Norms are landmarks, like the old Penn Station—you don’t think anyone could tear them down, and then someone does.’ ”
- Senior business and economics correspondent Jordan Weissmann likes …
“What The Fox Did” by Walt Hickey, FiveThirtyEight
“FiveThirtyEight made Markov bots to imitate their own writers. This is great.”
- Staff writer Jamelle Bouie likes …
“We’re asking the wrong question about police shootings” by Radley Balko, the Washington Post
“Great piece on the fraught racial history of frats.”
- Slate writer Mark Joseph Stern likes …
“ ‘The Americans’ Is Too Bleak, and That’s Why It’s Great” by Emily Nussbaum, the New Yorker
“Emily Nussbaum beautifully explains why I spend every episode of The Americans curled in a ball covering my eyes.”