Mementos Mori
January 27, 2022
Why do objects disappear?
Sophie Haigney
Sophie Haigney is a freelance reporter and critic who writes about art and technology.
Arts and Statecraft
February 9, 2021
Is the history of America a history of craft?
Sure as Fate
October 22, 2020
Uncertainty and destiny in the writings of Marilynne Robinson.
Factory Blues
October 29, 2019
It’s not quite clear if the washer lizards are real. Washer lizards, in Hiroko Oyamada’s novel The Factory, appear only once, in a report written by a child. They are, supposedly, a species that have built a habitat in the cleaning facilities of the sprawling factory the ...
San Francisco, Please Stand Up
June 5, 2019
Everyone is obsessed with San Francisco right now. It has become a symbol, a cliché, a fable about money and technology. The moral is different depending on who you ask. A sampling of headlines from the last month in local and national news: “How San Francisco broke ...
Nudging the Lexicon
October 23, 2018
The more we use The New Gmail, the more we beckon the end of meaningful human language.
Afternoon at the Nap Factory
October 5, 2018
It turns out that sleep is a highly marketable product.