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
Posted on March 6, 2023
in THR Web Features
Image: Jerusalem by Levi Meir Clancy, via Unsplash.
What to become? Dissident or emigrant? Move abroad?
The Mixed Legacy of James Ellroy
by
Mark Dunbar
Posted on February 28, 2023
in THR Web Features
Image: Sixth Street Bridge, Los Angeles; Shutterstock.
His writing became Ellroyian—telegraphic, fast-paced, and intellectually cynical.
Consumer Confusion
Posted on February 21, 2023
in THR Web Features
Image: THR illustration; Shutterstock.
Does the Meta-Birkin seriously compromise consumers’ ability to separate the NFT from the real Hermès bag?
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