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“The following are suggestions for the best magazine articles (in English) ever.”
“This is a work in progress. It is a on-going list of suggestions collectively made by readers of this post. At this point the list has not been vetted or selected by me. In fact, other than the original five items I suggested, all of the articles mentioned here have been recommended by someone other than me. (”
“The Top (…) 5 Articles Based on the number of times an article is recommended
Gay Talese, “Frank Sinatra Has a Cold.” Esquire,April 1966.
Hunter S. Thompson, “The Kentucky Derby is Decadent and Depraved.” Scanlan’s Monthly, June 1970.
Neal Stephenson, “Mother Earth, Mother Board: Wiring the Planet.” Wired, December 1996. On laying trans-oceanic fiber optic cable
David Foster Wallace, “Federer As Religious Experience.” The New York Times, Play Magazine, August 20, 2006.
David Foster Wallace, “Consider the Lobster.” Gourmet Magazine, August 2004.“