There are few quicker ways to make people angry than destroying a book. You can throw away an old toaster without anyone accusing you of attacking civilization. Toss a worn-out paperback into the garbage, however, and somebody will probably rescue it before the trash is collected. Books are objects... + continue reading
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There are few quicker ways to make people angry than destroying a book. You can throw away an old toaster without anyone accusing you of attacking civilization. Toss a worn-out paperback into the garbage, however, and somebody will probably rescue it before the trash is collected. Books are objects, but we have spent centuries treating them as... + continue reading
Twenty-five years ago today, America watched television. Not Netflix. Not YouTube. Not TikTok. Not a livestream somebody sent you on your phone. There were no push notifications from X, no Facebook feed filling with eyewitness video, no Reddit megathread updating faster than the news networks could verify what was happening.
We watched... + continue reading
Movies
For the better part of six years, we've been conducting an autopsy on a patient who keeps sitting up.
The movie theater is dying. Streaming killed it. COVID finished it. Audiences don't want to... + continue reading
Music
Twenty-five years after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, singer-songwriter R. J. Carter is marking the anniversary with the release of I See Your Name, a new song written in remembrance... + continue reading
Television
Twenty-five years ago today, America watched television. Not Netflix. Not YouTube. Not TikTok. Not a livestream somebody sent you on your phone. There were no push notifications from X, no Facebook... + continue reading
Books
There are few quicker ways to make people angry than destroying a book. You can throw away an old toaster without anyone accusing you of attacking civilization. Toss a worn-out paperback into the... + continue reading
Comics
“It can’t be! Not you! You’re… you’re dead!”
I wrote those words twenty-four years ago, not as dialogue but as a joke about dialogue — the sort of breathless exclamation comic-book readers had... + continue reading
Interviews
What innovations are reshaping the landscape of new casinos? What trends are in gambling nowadays? Meet Yugo Kinoshita, the Global CEO of Aruze Gaming Group, who speaks about the new era in the world... + continue reading
Home Video
"Did you see it last night?"
For a generation of Americans, that may have been the most powerful sentence in entertainment.
It wasn't merely a question. It was an invitation into a conversation... + continue reading
Gaming
There was a time when keeping an old video game system connected to the television felt less like preserving history and more like refusing to clean the basement. The new console was better. The... + continue reading
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Twenty-five years after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, singer-songwriter R. J. Carter is marking the anniversary with the release of I See Your Name, a new song written in remembrance... + continue reading
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