Tag: Reading

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| July 24, 2014

breaking the spell

I just got back from a brief vacation at Big Bend National Park, and when I was packing I made sure to stick a novel in...

| May 19, 2014

on Bleak House

I was recently telling a friend on Twitter who had just read Bleak House that when I first read it and got to the end I...

| March 17, 2014

silence as luxury good

Chloe Schama writes about silence as a “luxury product”: But the impossibility of silence says something about why...

| January 6, 2014

that article again?

I’m not even going to bother to link to them: a new set of articles (they come out at least weekly, and in major...

| November 29, 2013

a broken spell

Recently I was reading a lovely autobiographical essay by Zadie Smith about — well, in the way of the true essay,...

| November 25, 2013

on reading and flux

Please read this lovely reflection by Frank Chimero on “what screens want” — a gloss on Kevin Kelly’s what...