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Why Criticism Still Matters
Critics used to play an important role in popular culture. But many people think we’re better off without them....
Critics used to play an important role in popular culture. But many people think we’re better off without them....
The latest edition of Writerly contains an essay I wrote. Publishing in journals like this is part of a...
Last year I wrote about the future of Twitter. Since then, Elon Musk has bought the company and a...
Much of internet culture was built on the idea that curation was as important as content creation. This was...
Here’s my latest reading list from the month of May, with some poetry, memoir, art history, and brain science.
New technology is tempting – but often unaffordable, in terms of either time or money. So, how should we...
All the books I finished in April 2022.
Daddy’s Home is the latest album from St. Vincent. At first I wasn’t impressed by this surprisingly retro release...
Elon Musk, owner of Tesla Motors and SpaceX, has launched an audacious bid to acquire Twitter. This begs so...
Here are the books I read in March 2022.
Okay, this is the rantiest rant I’ve written in a long time. But the reaction to this year’s Oscars...
Re-reading Alexis de Tocqueville’s Democracy in America highlights just how individualistic our conversation about habits has become
Time for another month's worth of reading presented here in some brief reviews.
Starting this month, I’ll be writing a monthly round-up of the books I’m reading. Here’s the first: short reviews...
For February I did the Music Writers’ Exercise (#MWE) which involved listening to and writing a short review of...
On a recent visit to Adelaide we noticed our favourite tree had been cut down.