by Colette Shade
In high school, I envied a girl named Maddie because she owned a black toile handbag. If this…
by Matthew J.X. Malady
“To watch the compressed cycles of modern consumer electronics pass through your viewfinder gives a calming order to an industry that depends on the perception that it is perpetually exceptional. This perspective also helps to enforce realism about your relationship with consumer…
★★★ Helicopters streaked upriver with rose-stained cumulus behind them in the west. The idea of the thaw was…
“Hospitality glut.”
For The Awl’s permanent coverage of Today’s Apple Event, see here and here.
“Asked if he would prefer a driver who used a GPS unit or one with a good grasp of city geography, Mr. Wissak looked at several cabs sitting idle in his lot and said, ‘Right now, I’d take them both.’”
Your past is your present and if you have a future it is probably that as well.
The Adventures of Sindbad, The Moro Affair and Great Granny Webster are the three books I would get as part of the New York Review Books Winter Sale, but lucky for all of us (but especially you) you are not me, so you very well might make other choices. You have until the end of the month, so hurry.
