Media

Is the risk of losing digital identities in a flash really a fair trade for infinite access? Or should we all just defer to the old shoebox to keep photos of grandma safe?

Ann Friedman gives her no-nonsense take on durability in modern-day journalism, reflecting upon the timely and the timeless, the ephemeral and the evergreen.

Media platforms and tools are proliferating at an accelerating rate.

Unfinished business with some dreamers of the red planet dream

Magazines are artefacts; a presence in one’s home, library, cafe, hotel or meeting place. Increasingly, magazines have been using this power to expand their reach into the real world, communicating identity and acting as a platform.

Boris Anthony and Hugh McGuire discuss how much more might be possible when we truly bring books to digital.

Lewis Lapham argues that there’s a reason good writing is hard to find on the internet. What is good writing, anyway?

When we remember everything, do we understand anything?

The arrival of the internet was an extinction-level event for much of the old media. But can the new apex predators learn from the fates of those they supplanted?