Culled from CJR’s frequently updated “Must-reads from around the Web,” our staff recommendations for the best pieces of journalism (and other miscellany) on the Internet, here are your can’t-miss must-reads of the past week:
Going the distance — David Remnick goes on and off the road with Barack Obama
Bill Simmons apologizes for Grantland’s recent controversial piece — How “Dr. V’s Magical Putter” came to be published
It’s official: Ezra Klein is leaving the Post — Why WaPo passed on supporting Klein’s new venture
Maybe Ezra Klein and Jeff Bezos are both right — Did Klein’s proposal for a new news site make economic sense for the Post?
The NYT’s most popular story of 2013 was not an article — List of its 10 most visited pieces of last year
Secrets of the brain — New technologies are shedding light on biology’s greatest unsolved mystery: how the brain really works
Narrative persona in nonfiction — Or why Tom Wolfe wears ridiculous white suits
Why does life exist? — A 31-year-old assistant professor at MIT has derived a mathematical formula that may answer the question
‘Accessible, prompt, and equitable? — An examination of sexual assault at Columbia University
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