Consumer Confusion
Does the Meta-Birkin seriously compromise consumers’ ability to separate the NFT from the real Hermès bag?
A Novelist’s Reflections on Useful Fictions
by
Alan Jacobs
Posted on February 16, 2023
in THR Web Features
Image: The central illustration from the dust jacket of the 1927 Knopf edition of Lud-in-the-Mist; public domain.
Hope Mirrlees is interested in what happens if the power of Fairyland cannot be wholly excluded.
Love and Mr. Lincoln
Posted on February 14, 2023
in THR Web Features
Image: A cousin of Ann Rutledge declared that this young lady looked very much like Lincoln’s first sweetheart; THR illustration/Shutterstock/Library of Congress.
What if Ann Rutledge had lived, and she and Lincoln had married?
All Ben’s Boys
Posted on February 10, 2023
in THR Web Features
Image: From left: Katharine Graham, Carl Bernstein, Bob Woodward, Howard Simons, and Ben Bradlee discuss Watergate, 1973; Mark Godfrey/TopFoto.
An institution entering the last of its salad days while still running on the fumes of its preening self-importance.
Cosmogonies
Posted on February 8, 2023
in THR Web Features
Image: “How to Fly Without Wings” by Jeremy Botts; http://www.fiammascura.com/.
Fiction writers are world builders.
What the Light Says We Are
How we become convinced that life demands our devoted love.
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