Science & Technology, Memoir & Essay
The Stories Silicon Valley Tells Itself in Order to Live: A Conversation with Anna Wiener
Sam Jaffe GoldsteinAnna Wiener discusses her new memoir about working in Silicon Valley.
Science & Technology, Memoir & Essay
Anna Wiener discusses her new memoir about working in Silicon Valley.
Historian of science Michael D. Gordin reviews his former lab partner’s new book on the fuzziness of the quantum world.
Philosophy & Critical Theory, Science & Technology
Ronald Collins interviews Karen Olsson about her book “The Weil Conjectures: On Math and the Pursuit of the Unknown.”
Jack Gross interviews historian of science Lorraine Daston about her early work on rules, which has become newly salient in the age of algorithms.
Science & Technology, History, Cultural Studies
Historian of technology Patrick McCray reviews Morgan Ames’s new book on the MIT Media Lab’s One Laptop per Child program.
Around the World, Science & Technology
From the Chinese Social Credit System to Facebook and Airbnb, what to make of our new era of profilicity.
Fatigue and anger, vitamins, of being born at some remove from Sunday, leaving any world untouched, I guess I sing. But
In Studio Interviews Molly Ringwald on "When it Happens to You" Skylight Reading Series: Episode 5: Adrian Tomine discusses his "
Fatigue and anger, vitamins, of being born at some remove from Sunday, leaving any world untouched, I guess I sing. But
In Studio Interviews Molly Ringwald on "When it Happens to You" Skylight Reading Series: Episode 5: Adrian Tomine discusses his "
A VIDEO REVIEW by Clara Mokri.
Cecil Castellucci talks to LARB about reading and writing Young Adult fiction, and about the very good advice she got from
Clara Mokri, one of our student correspondents, on the book and the film.
Science & Technology, SF, Gender & Sexuality
Alex Wermer-Colan interviews sci-fi legend Samuel R. Delany about queerness, history, literature, and identity as the author moves into his late career.
Economics and Finance, Politics, Science & Technology
Another robot world is possible, one not built on hidden human labor and not dependent on damage to the soul
Around the World, Science & Technology
Lydia Pyne reviews "On the Backs of Tortoises: Darwin, the Galápagos, and the Fate of Evolutionary Eden" by Elizabeth Hennessy.
Around the World, Film, Science & Technology, History
Jean Comandon's 1909 "Spirochaeta Pallida (Agent de la Syphilis)" brought together the history of science and technology, sex and entertainment.