“I have the sensation, as do my friends, that to function as a proficient human, you must both ‘keep up’ with the internet and pursue more serious, analog interests.”

An essay on technology’s reach into daily life.

The abridged history of a Brooklyn culture war.

On America’s two literary fiction cultures and why one will endure.

Notes on a summer spent aboard an industrial fishing boat off the Alaskan coast.

A Pynchon conference in Lublin, Poland may say more about the men (yes, only men) who attend Thomas Pynchon conferences than the works of the reclusive author.

The editors of N+1 recap the revolution that is/was the internet with pit-stops to survey the Bolshevik Revolution, the NYT’s messy relationship with tech, and the value of an ad.