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essay “The Delta Factor,” “Why does man feel so sad in the twentieth century? Why does man feel so bad in the very age when, more than in any other age, he has succeeded in satisfying his needs and making over the world for his own use?” Why are we “lost in the cosmos?” Why do we feel so deeply, if unconsciously, disconnected?
Sven Birkerts • The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age
Je conseille de lire L’Attrape-cœurs à New York. Ce livre est un pur produit de cette ville – comme Central Park et Center Rockefeller le sont à leur manière. Il est à New York ce que Paris est une fête d’Hemingway est à Paris. Il faudra attendre Manhattan, le film de Woody Allen, pour retrouver une telle magie dans la description de cette ville. Q
... See moreDany Laferrière de l'Académie française • L'art presque perdu de ne rien faire: Collection bleue (essai français) (French Edition)

He conducts an ongoing interrogation about what it all means. What’s black culture? What’s hip-hop? What are the responsibilities of a society and the people in it? And his inquiry isn’t bloodlessly academic, either; there’s something very consequential about his approach.
Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson • Mo' Meta Blues: The World According to Questlove
Miller’s 1986 “Deride and Conquer,” far and away the best essay ever published about network advertising, details vividly an example of how TV’s contemporary kind of appeal to the lone viewer works.
David Foster Wallace • A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
twenty pages in length during the entire year.
Derek Bok • Higher Education in America
David Pierce • Spotify for Readers: How Tech Is Inventing Better Ways to Read the Internet
Both collectively and individually, the experience of watching TV in 2016 already feels totally disconnected from the experience of watching TV in 1996.