Google Search Is Quietly Damaging Democracy
[ad_1] Google’s aesthetic has always been rooted in a clean appearance—a homepage free of advertising and pop-up clutter, adorned only with a signature “doodle” decorating its name. Part of why…
Gabrielle Zevin Believes Games Show People Who They Really Are
[ad_1] That was the thing I wanted to explore with Solution. Also just thinking: What could an enterprising undergraduate in 1995 make? What’s the other aspect of that game? The…
A Glimpse of a Future Without White People
[ad_1] Whiteness is a seduction. Whiteness is also an illusion. These are the twin motifs on which Pakistani writer Mohsin Hamid props up The Last White Man, his new novel…
The Endless Afterlife of ‘The Sandman’
[ad_1] For faithful readers, Neil Gaiman’s Sandman saga came to an end more than a quarter century ago. It happened in 1996, when DC Comics published The Sandman #75, the…
Bookstagram Is Fueling an Unnerving Trend
[ad_1] In early July, Daisy Buchanan was enjoying a sunny Saturday morning pottering around her home—then she reached for her phone. She opened Instagram and saw the words “review,” “mediocre,”…
‘Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow’ Shows Games Are a Shared Art
[ad_1] The alternative to appropriation is a world where white European people make art about white European people, with only white European references in it. A world where everyone is…