A Week in Culture: Tim Wu, Professor
DAY ONE 11:00 A.M., Oakland University, Michigan “We don’t actually have wires sticking out of our heads,” I say, “but if you have an iPhone in your pocket and a laptop on your bag you’re pretty close....
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May 2011, Durham, North Carolina. It is late spring and the rain comes heavy in this old tobacco town. Rivulets carve tiny tributaries into the Durham Triassic Basin. Soaking up the water, the red...
View ArticleBinyavanga Wainaina, Nairobi, Kenya
A series on what writers from around the world see from their windows. I have lived in this cramped little cottage near Ngong Forest in Nairobi for the past year. After many winters abroad, I find...
View ArticleThe Meaning of the Bones
Does Shakespeare really have “universal appeal”? From the U.K. cover of Shakespeare in Swahililand. “People frequently ask me why I devote so much time to seeking out facts about man’s past,” the...
View ArticleThe Long and Pretty Good-bye
Megan Mayhew Bergman’s column is about naturalism. This week, she discusses the role of modern elegiac writing in an era of extinction. Michelle Blade, Entrance, 2014, acrylic on canvas, 60″ x 46″....
View ArticleA Week in Culture: Tim Wu, Professor
DAY ONE 11:00 A.M., Oakland University, Michigan “We don’t actually have wires sticking out of our heads,” I say, “but if you have an iPhone in your pocket and a laptop on your bag you’re pretty close....
View ArticleMaji Moto
May 2011, Durham, North Carolina. It is late spring and the rain comes heavy in this old tobacco town. Rivulets carve tiny tributaries into the Durham Triassic Basin. Soaking up the water, the red...
View ArticleBinyavanga Wainaina, Nairobi, Kenya
A series on what writers from around the world see from their windows. I have lived in this cramped little cottage near Ngong Forest in Nairobi for the past year. After many winters abroad, I find...
View ArticleThe Meaning of the Bones
Does Shakespeare really have “universal appeal”? From the U.K. cover of Shakespeare in Swahililand. “People frequently ask me why I devote so much time to seeking out facts about man’s past,” the...
View ArticleThe Long and Pretty Good-bye
Megan Mayhew Bergman’s column is about naturalism. This week, she discusses the role of modern elegiac writing in an era of extinction. Michelle Blade, Entrance, 2014, acrylic on canvas, 60″ x 46″....
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