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Kyle Chayka

Woman hiding under the blanket, chatting and surfing the internet with smart phone at late night on bed.
Posted inNonfiction

Becoming Human Again: A Reading List for the Extremely Offline

by Lisa Bubert March 9, 2022October 19, 2022

Think it’s time to get off social media? Then this is the reading list for you.

Posted inEditor's Pick

How Nothingness Became Everything We Wanted

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands January 19, 2021October 19, 2022

“The culture of negation inspires a taste for nothingness and glorifies numbness.”

Posted inNonfiction, Top 5

The Top 5 Longreads of the Week

by Longreads October 25, 2019October 19, 2022

This week, we’re sharing stories from Paul Kiel & Justin Elliot, Andy Greenberg, Mary Heglar, Katherine Miller, and Kyle Chayka.

Posted inBusiness & Tech, Culture, Highlight, Quotes

We’re All Tourists Now, So Let’s Stop with the Endless, Tedious Quests for Authenticity

by benhuberman October 22, 2019October 19, 2022

In Iceland, overtourism has transformed the island in a few short years — and locals and visitors alike try to grapple with the change.

Posted inEditor's Pick

My Own Private Iceland

by benhuberman October 21, 2019October 19, 2022

When an island nation of 300,000 residents receives more than two million tourists a year, radical change is inevitable — but is it all negative?

Posted inArts & Culture, Highlight, Quotes

This Post Was Originally 200 Words Longer But They Weren’t Sparking Joy

by michelleweber January 21, 2019October 19, 2022

“Instead of homes, we live in commodities.”

Posted inEditor's Pick

Group Therapy for the End of the World

by benhuberman September 5, 2018October 19, 2022

A chronicle of a week spent in the Swedish countryside, at a workshop designed to help participants come to terms with impending environmental doom.

Shiprock Peak in New Mexico
Posted inNonfiction, Top 5

The Top 5 Longreads of the Week

by Longreads April 20, 2018October 19, 2022

This week, we’re sharing stories from Rachel Monroe, Jianan Qian, Rene Ebersole, Adi Robertson, and Kyle Chayka.

Posted inBusiness & Tech, Design, Essays & Criticism, Quotes

Do These Pants Make Me Look Like Everyone Else? Be Honest, Alexa.

by michelleweber April 18, 2018October 19, 2022

What happens to taste when machines become the tastemakers? Kyle Chayka meditates on style, algorithms, and our generic yet lullingly unobjectionable future.

Posted inHighlight, Nonfiction, Quotes

The Placeless and the Privileged

by benhuberman February 9, 2018October 19, 2022

On the macro forces that have made digital nomadism something more powerful, and more sinister, than just another “lifestyle choice.”

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