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?
A Novelist’s Reflections on Useful Fictions
by
Alan Jacobs
Posted on February 16, 2023
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
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?
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