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We can try to perform our inner lives, but we can’t actually reveal them. We can create a simulacrum, which is so much of what I see on social media, and that simulacrum is entertainment. It’s exciting because we all love the whiff of authenticity, and the more mediated our culture feels, the more we crave it, but we can’t actually give it away. We cannot actually break through the barrier of our individual aloneness.
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Is it not in the warm chambers of the past, after all, that we are immortal, invincible, and alive?
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Jenny Odell discusses HOW TO DO NOTHING: RESISTING THE ATTENTION ECONOMY.
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We all will have lost something in the forgetting.
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A weekly roundup of essays we’re reading online!
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Militello chooses cadence over chronology to show how moments flow into each other and through us.
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Was I ready to read this book, now? After all this time?
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A weekly roundup of essays we’re reading online!
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Time is king. Believers, agnostics or atheists—humans or not: time rules us. We submit to it, surrender to it, and are shaped by it.
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Keith Lee Morris discusses his latest book Traveler’s Rest, Lewis and Clark, and how writing a novel about dreams requires much more than sleep.
...moreWhere do our words go when we lose them? Jenny Diski embarks on an exploration into vanishing vocabulary: So I had a thought about writing a book for the elderly, the old. Those who have lost their words more comprehensively than the friends around our lunch table, but haven’t lost themselves entirely. A book about where all the […]
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It is often said that who controls the past controls the future but Nietzsche is one of the first to anticipate the power of speculation—that he who controls the future, controls the present.
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Lauren Groff talks about her new novel, Fates and Furies, the life of creative people and those who love them, and why she’s grateful to anyone who reads books.
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In most communities, teachers are compensated so poorly and afforded so little respect that in many cases the primary compensation is martyrdom.
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I started watching as if I were dropping by to say hello.
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Rebecca Makkai talks about ghosts, teaching, chronology in writing, and her new novel, The Hundred-Year House.
...more(n.); the art, practice, or method of measuring time by hours and subordinate divisions; the art or science of measuring time; from the Greek hora (“time” or “season”) + metron (“measure”) With them who stood upon the brink of the great gulf which none can see beyond, Time, so soon to lose itself in vast […]
...moreWe know many people collect old letters, especially from loved ones who have passed, but what about old emails? What will happen to our electronic footprint after we are gone? And should we care? NPR’s All Things Considered investigates the humanity hidden in our inboxes. “[But] people change, people have new experiences, people get sad, […]
...moreAt the New York Times, Chris Huntington writes an essay about how working with prisoners taught him to reevaluate how he measured time, as well as his successes and failures. “When the battery in my watch died, I still wore it. There was something about the watch that said: It doesn’t matter what time it […]
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The New York Comics & Picture-Story Symposium is a weekly forum for discussing the tradition and future of text/image work. Open to the public, it meets Monday nights 7-9 p.m. EST in New York City.
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The New York Comics & Picture-Story Symposium is a weekly forum for discussing the tradition and future of text/image work.
...moreEnglish majors and other humanities students, take heart: your diploma’s not so useless after all! Though arts, humanities, and social sciences are often disparaged as impractical, Time‘s Annette Gordon-Reed argues that they prepare students for the job market quite well in the long run. After all, who is better suited to the unpredictable demands of today’s […]
...moreIf you haven’t yet read the Time exposé of the American health-care industry, you’re missing out. It’s easy to see that something’s wrong with the way we do health care in the United States, but hard to understand just how deep the dysfunction goes. It goes alllll the way down:
...moreCheryl Strayed talks with Time about Wild, Dear Sugar and Tiny Beautiful Things, how the Pacific Crest Trail has changed since 1995, current projects, and more. “My intent was—stories, poems, they have been my guiding lights. I thought, why not give others what I’ve received from other literary forms? And that is stories that move […]
...moreRumpus contributor Jonathan Ames recently got interviewed by a little magazine called Time. Clearly this upstart Time rag is hopping on the Rumpus’ pro-Ames bandwagon, but we won’t begrudge them. How can you NOT want to learn more about a writer who’s been compared to everyone from Norman Mailer to David Sedaris?
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