A String of Pearls
JJ Lee remembers the best gift he ever gave.
FROM THE ARCHIVE: The heart’s desire of a child is not a thing to play with and, well, I’m still a child when it comes to accepting presents.
Essays
Lean Out
Lunch break > work.
If you’re old enough, you probably remember the curious phenomenon known as “the lunch break.”
The Death of the Solitary Author
On writing in the digital age.
Authors—once permitted to sit in their hovel and emerge once a year for a writer’s festival—have become social entities.
Brexit Stage Left
Britain votes to leave the EU.
Dramatic. Momentous. Revolutionary. Earth-shattering. Such peacockery has typically been confined to Hollywood puff pieces and high-tech product launches, until now.
Joe Gebbia of Airbnb
Turning tourism into travel.
To co-founder Joe Gebbia, what Airbnb is actually selling is a kind of antidote to a peculiar sense of 20th century alienation.
What Muhammad Ali Has Taught Us
The more things change, the more they stay the same.
FROM THE ARCHIVE: Muhammad Ali was once quoted saying: “The sun has a purpose. The moon has a purpose. The snow has a purpose. Cows have a purpose. You were born for a purpose. You have to find your purpose.”
Proof for Gravitational Waves
More than a theory.
Did you feel that? That little stretch as your legs pulled away from your body, that little squeeze as your sides squished together for a fraction of a moment?
Battle of the Bytes
The online offensive.
The script reads like something Spielberg would have cooked up back in the eighties: a nefarious group of black-hooded malcontents arise from the desert, hell-bent on burning Western civilization to the ground.
Climate Change and its Impact on Wine
Change is in the air.
It seems the global weather system is getting weirder and less predictable. And on the contentious but important subject of global warming? The study of how wine will react to climate change is one small but telling piece of the larger story of how agriculture as a whole will endure.
