Final Role

The Role Of His Life

Tomas Weber | Smithsonian | 24th October 2024

Leo Reuss, a Jewish actor in Germany and Austria, had a novel approach to the Nazi crackdowns of the 1930s. He created a "role within a role", turning himself into an Alpine farmer with Nazi sympathies. He worked as "Kaspar Brandhofer" for months before he was caught. After escaping to the US, he lived out WW2 playing German characters, often Nazis, in Hollywood films (3,700 words)

Final Flight Of The Airline Magazine

Lucy Schiller | Columbia Journalism Review | 16th October 2024

End of an era. For writers and publishers, the in-flight magazine was always a challenge. A publication with a captive readership — trapped "in a Wi-Fi void, inside of a high-altitude tin can" — that needed to be suitable reading for anyone, child or adult, who pulled it from the seat pocket. Beloved by many who thumbed through them, such magazines could not survive the smartphone (2,600 words)