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It’s 2016. I’m a contemporary artist and have been living off of Medicaid, food stamps, and $20k annually since graduating from art school five years ago. I see the return policies offered by Bezos and the Waltons as loan agreements; I lend them $1,500, and the interest they pay is my use of a new hard drive. While ...

Burn Book: A Tech Love Story by Kara Swisher. Simon & Schuster, 320 pages. 2024. Silicon Valley was supposed to be “different,” or so veteran tech journalist Kara Swisher wanted to believe. Facebook was going to bring people together, in the process strengthening our communities, our democracies, our world; Google w...

In late May, about a month before the store reopened, New York City’s most famous purveyor of literary tchotchkes, the Strand, posted images of a pair of face masks to Instagram. One bore the store’s iconic logo; the other a quote often found on merchandise sold in the store: “A well-read woman is a dangerous creatu...