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The Future of Criticism
They do, it turns out, build statues to critics.
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We're Back!
And so are paid subscriptions
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Soul Searching (Reprise)
With its overtone of loss, nostalgia isn't homesickness, but time sickness.
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L’Age de l’écran
The United States is probably the ur-example of what happens to a country when you use consumer technology to take society apart.
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Pride and Paperbacks
and an excerpt from The Future Was Color
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Packing My Library
What I want from my shelves, as I pack them up, is criticism. Here are a few of my favorites.
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Sentimental Materialism
When I was growing up, the zeitgeist said to fear and despise the office cubicle. Today, most people live in them.
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A Century Later, Tom and Daisy Are Still Ruining Our Lives
There’s a sense in the novel that, unless we have the language for something, it’s not real and it has no future.
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April Hates U
Eliot and I have at least one thing in common: Some people never get over being raised in the Midwest.
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