cultural snow

An interesting piece by Rachel Aroesti arguing that the prevalence of algorithm-driven drivel might necessitate the resurgence of cultural ...

I recently discovered this decade-old list of the greatest British novels , which is more interesting than most of its type for a couple of ...

From Disobedience , by Naomi Alderman: Because in Hendon there are plenty of people just dying to explain the meaning of life to you. I gues...

“Too often people go to university to explore research and knowledge.” — Peter Kyle , Secretary of State for Business and Trade

Here we are again. The core audience for Mastermind is apparently viewers who know that People Just Do Nothing is a TV comedy show, but not...

I picked up a copy of The Wire for the first time in several years and, despite it being the 500th edition, it seems somehow diminished, as...

From Nicholson Baker’s A Box of Matches , regarding Marines’ predilection for short hair: “They want to look like penile tubes of warmongeri...

In the New Yorker, interesting thoughts from Kelefa Sanneh about how music criticism got too nice . I find two particular takeaways. One I r...