• Technology

    Pop Music

    How Björk Helped Iceland Weather the Global
    Financial Crisis

    By Panos A. Panay & R. Michael Hendrix  April 12, 2021
    Big Data

    Why Targeted Ads Are a Disaster for Democracy

    By Carissa Véliz  April 9, 2021
    Scams

    Wet Hot American Scammer: Revisiting the Magnificent Failure of the Fyre Festival

    By Gabrielle Bluestone  April 7, 2021
    Storytelling

    On the Valuable Writing Lessons I Learned as a Television Reporter

    By Nancy Johnson  April 1, 2021
    The Hub

    A new e-book bill is dividing publishers and libraries (but the real culprit is Amazon).

    By Walker Caplan  March 31, 2021
    Behind the Mic

    The Code Breaker by Walter Isaacson, Read by Kathe Mazur and Walter Isaacson

    By Behind the Mic   March 31, 2021
    The Hub

    A Seattle firm is officially suing Amazon for fixing book prices.

    By Walker Caplan  March 30, 2021
    Publishing

    On the Behavioral Economy of the Book World

    By Robert Frank  March 30, 2021
    Keen On

    Sherry Turkle on AI and the Perils of Pretend Empathy

    By Keen On  March 30, 2021
    The Hub

    Let’s hope the latest book TikTok controversy is the last.

    By Walker Caplan  March 29, 2021
    Travel

    The Louvre’s entire collection is now online.

    By Walker Caplan  March 29, 2021
    Keen On

    How Big Tech’s “Code Rush” Mirrors the California Gold Rush

    By Keen On  March 29, 2021
    The Hub

    Dear Amazon: Why can’t we sell our ebook on your platform?

    By The Massachusetts Review  March 26, 2021
    The Internet

    What Would You Do If The Internet Went Away?

    By Chris Colin  March 26, 2021
    New Books Network

    How Long Are We Really Going to Distinguish Between Humans, Cyborgs, and AI?

    By New Books Network  March 26, 2021
    Climate Crisis

    How Contemporary Novelists Are Confronting Climate Collapse in Fiction

    By Amy Brady  March 24, 2021
    Social Media

    How BookTok Gets Into
    Your Brain

    By Bethanne Patrick  March 24, 2021
    Anthropology

    Where Do Posthumanist Fantasies of Tech-Enabled Life Fit Into Evolution?

    By Melanie Challenger  March 24, 2021
    Keen On

    On the Civil Rights Implications of “Vaccine Passports”

    By Keen On  March 24, 2021
    The Hub

    Listen to a wax cylinder recording of Alfred Tennyson reading “The Charge of the Light Brigade.”

    By Walker Caplan  March 22, 2021
    The Hub

    Are digital kids’ books too distracting?

    By Jonny Diamond  March 22, 2021
    The Hub

    Copywriters beware! A copywriting AI has just raised nearly $3 million in funding.

    By Walker Caplan  March 18, 2021
    The Hub

    This website turns all our collective Wikipedia editing into ambient music in real time.

    By Walker Caplan  March 18, 2021
    New York City

    How the Early Internet Helped with the “Rebirth” of New York City

    By Thomas Dyja  March 18, 2021
    Change Lab

    Dan Brodnitz on Democratizing Education at LinkedIn Learning

    By Change Lab  March 18, 2021
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