On Fiction’s Lawlessness
If there is a war between database and narrative in Cervantes and Sterne, it is a merry one.
After the Fall of Silicon Valley Bank
It is time for the tech world to start thinking institutionally.
David Hume’s Guide to Social Media
The cultivation of taste, in morals as well as in art, is neither snobbish nor elitist.
The Almost Unbearable Burden of Belonging
What to become? Dissident or emigrant? Move abroad?
The Mixed Legacy of James Ellroy
His writing became Ellroyian—telegraphic, fast-paced, and intellectually cynical.
Consumer Confusion
Does the Meta-Birkin seriously compromise consumers’ ability to separate the NFT from the real Hermès bag?