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All longform pieces posted on The Slow Scroll
Speaking in Small Tongues
The Fence • 23 Jan 2025 • ~3750 words
An oil trader and an Old Etonian with a genius for PR, was Justin Welby the worst Archbishop of Canterbury since Thomas Arundel?
The CRPG Renaissance, Part 1: Fallout
The Digital Antiquarian • 24 Jan 2025 • ~7600 words
Jimmy Maher writes about the story of the video game Fallout, its place in the computer role playing game resurgency of late 90s, and what made it such a unique game.
The warlord, the oligarch and the unravelling of Russia’s Amazon.com
The Economist • 24 Jan 2025 • ~4450 words
Before the Ukraine war, Wildberries was a giant of e-commerce. Now it’s caught up in a medieval blood feud
☆Being an Asian Southerner Means Being an Anomaly, Squared
Electric Literature • 23 Jan 2025 • ~6100 words
This is how I know an Asian South exists: I miss it