Magazines

Mar
08

What Is Milk?: A Harder Question To Answer Than You'd Think

Is this a question too basic to deserve serious consideration? Not according to a new article in The Atlantic, which
1 min read
Feb
13

How Would You Fact-Check a Chat Bot?

The New Yorker’s Interview Issue is out, and is it any surprise that a voice that we just had
3 min read
Mar
16

Bombs, Bunkers, and Parents We Never Knew

I was recently blown away by Mike Mills’ film C’mon, C’mon for so many reasons, but one was
3 min read
Jul
13

Jason Sudeikis and Ted Lasso: One and the Same

Ted Lasso took the world by storm. It was a balm we all needed in the midst of a tough
Jul
01

George Packer on the passing of Donald Rumsfeld

I know a lot of these recent daily posts have been about the deaths of prominent or controversial folks, and
1 min read
Jun
24

John McAfee, We Hardly Knew Thee

News came today that John McAfee, of the antivirus program fame, was found dead in a Spanish jail. I was
1 min read
Jan
30

Almost a month in 2020, how's your "read more" resolution going?

February is just around the corner, and as such, many of us have already abandoned New Year’s resolutions weeks
2 min read
Oct
27

Sadness as Art

There is no novelty in making art out of one’s sadness. It’s an oft-traversed path for artists of
4 min read
Oct
13

Trump vs. Clinton

If you blinked in the past week, you’d be forgiven for missing one or two or ten news stories
7 min read
Sep
08

Jia Tolentino's Trick Mirror is scary good. And professionally inspiring.

Watching Jia Tolentino’s success reminds me a little of watching college athletics in my mid-20s: I would gape and
4 min read