New Yorker Essays I've Enjoyed Recently (and others)
Yes, I am flaunting my subscription
In my attempt to become more well-read and to broaden my reading horizons, I subscribed to The New Yorker. The beautiful graphics and art, the writing and intellectually stimulating articles keep me well entertained and my brain fed. In my short time reading their works, and the works of some others I found through similar sites, I’ve comprised this list of articles/essays I enjoyed!
On today’s social media, the only way to counteract the overflow of online content is to put out an overflow of your own.
How Much Does Our Language Shape Our Thinking? by Manvir Singh
English continues to expand into diverse regions around the world. The question is whether humanity will be homogenized as a result.
Words and phrases came from nowhere; I rarely had any sense of what they meant or to what context they belonged.
Educating the TikTok generation
Often, it’s our most obviously necessary tasks that feel the most impossible.
Are you the same person you were when you were a child?
To create a novel or a painting, an artist makes choices that are fundamentally alien to artificial intelligence.
Caught between competing impulses, we praise living in the moment while obsessing about what’s to come.