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Max Read just started a newsletter that seems like it’s going to be good. Max has written some of my favorite recent tech criticism, such as this mid-p…
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One of my favorite pieces of architecture writing is Rem Koolhaas’s 2001 essay Junkspace, as you may be aware if you’ve been reading this newsletter fo…
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In an apparent effort to provoke a large swath of my age group, Pitchfork announced earlier this week that it was revising its numeric ratings for 19 a…
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Alex Pareene wrote a post last month about a recent Pew survey indicating that the majority of Americans prefer car-oriented sprawl to dense, walkable …
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One of the most illuminating television scenes ever filmed—a perfect analogy for the contemporary texture of reality—occurs in Season 4 of The Office, …
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I went to the US Open last week, a fun end-of-summer New York ritual that felt especially exciting after last year’s hiatus. Like any other live sporti…
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An important ritual throughout my youth was inspecting someone’s music collection the first time you visited their house or rode in their car and using…
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Last week I wrote a piece for Real Life about the tech industry’s disinterest in fashion and its broader rejection of public space and the idea of a co…
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Tse Wei Lim has a good newsletter about food, restaurants, and their economics—“food in the context of food systems,” as he describes it. His most rece…
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I tweeted the other day that “there’s too much internet now” and blamed it on the pandemic. Have you felt that way lately? Regardless of whether the vi…
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I’m reading John Stilgoe’s book Common Landscape of America, 1580-1845, an incredible book with a hilariously boring-sounding title that is much less d…
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The 2000 Onion article “Area Man Constantly Mentioning He Doesn’t Own a Television” captures a familiar trope from that era, complete with the perfect …
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