The Age of the Crisis of Work

The Disappearing Doomsday

History’s Fool: The long century of Ernst Jünger

From Harper's: How the Media Failed Julian Assange

At Random: The business of books and the merger that wasn’t

Book of the Living: The house museums of New Orleans

The Thoughtful Prick: On Casanova

An Hallucinated Man: The battles over T. S. Eliot’s legacy

A Formal Feeling: Inside the World of Louise Bourgeois

The Victim Cloud: Gullibility in the golden age of scams

Sorcerer’s Apprentice: Looking for demons in a disenchanted world

Night Shifts: Can technology shape our dreams?

The Eros Monster

Voice Lessons – How coaches get in athletes’ heads

Cryptonomicon: Among the Bitcoin Maximalists

Routine maintenance: Embracing habit in an automated world

The Mosaicist: On Evan S. Connell

In Praise of Idleness, by Bertrand Russell (1932)

The Odor of Things – Solving the mysteries of scent

Desperately Seeking Sebald

Ad Astra: The coming battle over space

“Put on the Diamonds”: Notes on Humiliation

To Be a Field of Poppies: turning cadavers into compost

The Portrait Gallery

Bad News

The Undiscovered Country: Can suicide be predicted?

Regarding Michael Pollan’s New Book This Is Your Mind on Plants

How Amazon turned a generation against labor

The Anxiety of Influencers

Abolish High School (2015)

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