9 Best Articles in 2022
medium.com
Something is wrong on the internet
medium.com
20+ min read · From 2017 · I’m James Bridle. I’m a writer and artist concerned with technology and culture. I usually write on my own blog, but frankly I don’t want…
Aeon+Psyche
How to gain more from your reading
Aeon+Psyche
~17 min read · 2021-07-07 · There’s more to words than meets the eye. Deepen your appreciation of literature through the art of slow, attentive reading
The Atlantic
NFTs Are an Art Project Gone Awry
The Atlantic
8 min read · 2021-04-02 · When we invented non-fungible tokens, we were trying to protect artists. But tech-world opportunism has struck again.
Guardian Books
Thirty books to help us understand the world in 2020
Guardian Books
20+ min read · 2020-10-18 · The climate crisis, gender, populism, big tech, pandemics, race… our experts recommend titles to illuminate the issues of the day
Anne Helen Petersen
Revenge Bedtime Procrastination
Anne Helen Petersen
7 min read · 2021-09-26 · This is the Sunday edition of Culture Study — the newsletter from Anne Helen Petersen, which you can read about here. If you like it and want more like it in your inbox, consider subscribing. Here is…
BBC News (World)
The 100 greatest TV series of the 21st Century
BBC News (World)
5 min read · 2021-10-19 · BBC Culture polled 206 TV experts from 43 countries in order to find the greatest TV of the 21st Century – here’s the top 100
Aeon+Psyche
A history of disruption, from fringe ideas to social change
Aeon+Psyche
~14 min read · 2021-12-23 · Major disruptions in world history follow a clear pattern. What can upheavals of the past tell us about our own future?
Guardian Books
Why do so few men read books by women?
Guardian Books
4 min read · 2021-07-09 · No matter if it is Austen or Atwood, the Brontës or Booker winners, data shows men are reluctant to read women – and this has real world implications
The New York Times
100 Notable Books of 2020
The New York Times
20+ min read · 2020-11-20 · The year’s notable fiction, poetry and nonfiction, selected by the editors of The New York Times Book Review
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Is confidence a cult? These sociologists think so.
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9 min read · Jan 18th · A new book aims to show why directives to "just be more confident!" are so harmful.
The Conversation
The messy history of our modern, Western calendar
The Conversation
5 min read · 2021-12-31 · The calendar helps to give us a map of the shifting revolutions of the seasons, ordering our days. But how did it come about?
Aeon+Psyche
When art transports us, where do we actually go?
Aeon+Psyche
6 min read · Jan 11th · Artworks have the capacity to transport us into other worlds. But where exactly do we go when we are immersed in art?
theundefeated.com
The Black vanguard in white utopias
theundefeated.com
20+ min read · Jan 1st · It is an unseasonably warm fall evening in Nashville, Tennessee, and I am too old, too Black and too sober to be on Broadway. The city’s main tourist artery is …
popmatters.com
‘Oh, You Pretty Thing’: David Bowie’s Glam Masterpiece ‘Hunky Dory’ Turns 50
popmatters.com
8 min read · Jan 11th · David Bowie's Hunky Dory is self-conscious about artifice and image. It maintains a resounding undercurrent of human longing for connection and recognition.
The Guardian
How to kill a god: the myth of Captain Cook shows how the heroes of empire will…
The Guardian
~13 min read · Jan 18th · The long read: In the 18th century, the naval explorer was worshipped as a deity. Now his statues are being defaced across the lands he visited
Rolling Stone
He Used Plastic Surgery to Raise Rock Stars From the Dead
Rolling Stone
20+ min read · Jan 2nd · Decades before hologram tours, one rogue ’70s promoter found another way to put Elvis, Janis, Jim Morrison, and other late icons back onstage
hastyreader.com
How to Summon & Sell your Soul to Satan and other Devils
hastyreader.com
10 min read · Jan 1st · Selling your soul has never been easier. Today, there are plenty of demonology books that teach you how to bargain with Lucifer, written by authors who have probably done this themselves on multiple…
Harper's Bazaar
Anna Marie Tendler Turns the Lens on Herself
Harper's Bazaar
8 min read · Jan 12th · What happens when the good-natured wife from a famous stand-up routine gets divorced, embraces her art, and goes viral on TikTok?
