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The Way Words Mean

The Way Words Mean

In the film The Big Sleep (1946), the private eye Philip Marlowe (played by Humphrey Bogart) calls at the hou…

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The Cost of Convenience

The Cost of Convenience

A recent service from Amazon offers a smart lock for your front door and a security camera inside. Once insta…

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Is That Even a Thing?

Is That Even a Thing?

Speakers and writers of American English have recently taken to identifying a staggering and constantly chang…

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When Analogies Fail

When Analogies Fail

The Chronicle Review "[Trump] is like the blond alien in the 1995 movie 'Species,' who mutates from ova to ad…

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Bingespeak

Bingespeak

This piece appears in the LARB Print Quarterly Journal: No. 17, Comedy To receive the LARB Quarterly Journal,…

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The Art of Thinking in Other People's Heads

The Art of Thinking in Other People's Heads

"In the beginning was the press, and then the world appeared." So begins a satirical 1922 poem by Karl Kraus.…

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