“This is how I know an Asian South exists: I miss it.”
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Eastern Promises
“In a Tokyo of tourists, the citizens have become strangers.”
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Century-Scale Storage
“If you had to store something for 100 years, how would you do it?”
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A Portrait of the Artist as an Amazon Reviewer
“Between 2003 and 2019, Kevin Killian published almost twenty-four hundred reviews on the site. Can they be considered literature?”
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Looking at Art Will Never Be the Same Again
“A conversation with the art historian Claire Bishop about technology’s influence on museums and galleries, and her recent book Disordered Attention.”
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‘Maya Blue’: The Mystery Dye Recreated Two Centuries After It Was Lost
“A ceramicist in Mexico retraces his Maya roots to recreate a long-lost pre-Hispanic pigment for the first time in more than two centuries.”
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The Lessons of Lore
Ghost stories reveal our collective anxieties amid times of change.
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The Joy of Clutter
“The world sees Japan as a paragon of minimalism. But its hidden clutter culture shows that ‘more’ can be as magical as ‘less.’”
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The Collapse of Self-Worth in the Digital Age
“Why are we letting algorithms rewrite the rules of art, work, and life?”
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“It’s Time to Play Ball, British Style”
“A hot dog, a Pimm’s cup and two national anthems: The cultural dissonance of watching America’s pastime in London.”