Internet

Why it’s so hard to lend a book to a friend, according to the internet.

 
By James Folta  May 30, 2024
The Internet Age

How Corporations Tried—And Failed—To Control the Spread of Content Online

By David Bellos and Alexandre Montagu  February 8, 2024
The Internet Age

Life Concentrated: Kate Brody on Writing About the Internet

By Kate Brody  January 2, 2024
On Technology

Unlocking Digital Doors: On the Hacker Group That Told Congress They Could Take Down the Internet

By Walter J. Scheirer  December 7, 2023
Lyric Essays

Beyond the True-False Binary: How the Internet Helped Transform the Lyric Essay

By Hugh Ryan  September 6, 2023
Social Media

How Big Tech Helps Promote Disinformation—And How It Can Help Stop It

By Lee McIntyre  August 30, 2023
Publishing

On the Pitfalls of Book Promotion in the Internet Age

By Tom Rachman  June 26, 2023
Music Writing

How CokeMachineGlow.com Defined a Decade of Music Writing

By Clayton Purdom  December 12, 2022
Solitude

Why We Should Reach Out When We’re Lonely—Even If No One Answers

By Ethan Chatagnier  October 18, 2022
The Internet

Kristine Langley Mahler on How Online Rabbit Holes Fuel Creativity

By Kristine Langley Mahler  August 22, 2022
The Internet

When Anonymous Focused Its Digital Wrath on the Steubenville Rape Case

By Nancy Schwartzman and Nora Zelevansky  July 12, 2022
Correspondence

What a Letter Captures—and Preserves—in the Age of Social Media

By Nikki Erlick  June 28, 2022
The Internet

The Digital Age is Destroying Us

By Jonathan Crary  April 18, 2022
Conspiracy theories

Why Do Some People Believe the Earth is Flat?

By Kelly Weill  March 10, 2022
Tech

How a Second-Generation Latino Immigrant Became Known as the Boy Genius of Apple

By Michael Sayman  September 21, 2021
The Internet

What We’re Getting Wrong About So-Called Internet Literature

By Shya Scanlon  June 17, 2021
The Hub

That inspiring Eric Carle quote making the rounds yesterday was actually an April Fool’s joke.

By Walker Caplan  May 28, 2021
The Hub

An ode to the first Internet novel.

By Katie Yee  February 24, 2021
The Hub

All the memes in Patricia Lockwood’s No One Is Talking About This, explained.

By Walker Caplan  February 22, 2021
Memory

Daydreams and Fragments: On How We Retrieve Images
From the Past

By Maël Renouard  February 12, 2021
The Hub

New in TikTok trends: A ten-year-old self-help book?

By Walker Caplan  February 8, 2021
The Hub

The first wave of TikTokers-turned-writers is here: Charli D’Amelio’s book comes out December 1.

By Walker Caplan  November 25, 2020
Technology

How to Feel Like a
Human Online

By Chris Stedman  November 5, 2020
The Internet

One Way to Write About a Millennial Protagonist? Don’t Settle on a Single Form.

By Emma Jane Unsworth  August 21, 2020
The Internet

The Internet Has Split Our Sense of Self. Can the Page Reproduce That?

By Rebecca Watson  August 12, 2020
Criticism

The Internet Novel Is As Chaotic As Your Twitter Feed

By Maddie Crum  May 1, 2020
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