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Life and death at Balthazar

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Making babies

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And nobody's saying it. 

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Everybody knows...

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Changed for good. 

on a generation of listeners shaped by music hardware. 

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25 years of iPod brain

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The Michael Clayton of it all. 

on corporate thrillers and why we love them. 

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"The guy you buy"

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Ephemera mania!

goes inside an installation of vintage printed matter from New York City's nightlife. 

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Scene report: DSMNY

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Prestige Silicon Valley television. 

on Halt and Catch Fire as a techno-optimist time capsule. This piece was published in collaboration with Boys Club. 

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“Dude, the Internet.”

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“Undone by a string of clues” 

on the struggle to articulate the present. 

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The feeling of the old world fading away

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“Rob Doyle is just another figure lost in that labyrinth of fictions.”

in conversation with [Rob Doyle](https://www.robdoyle.net/) about his third novel, [Cameo](https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/cameo-rob-doyle/7841719?ean=9781399631075&next=t&affiliate=10403).

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