While working on Brain Magnet, I got the chance to sit down for a chat with Michigan State […]
Author: Alex Sayf Cummings
Gaston Bachelard’s 1958 classic The Poetics of Space offers a fresh way of thinking about our increasingly cloistered existences.
The coronavirus crisis shows that an economy that only rewards and protects the most privileged workers is vulnerable to collapse.
I was in my first year or so in a PhD program when I realized something weird. A […]
The Good Place’s finale reminds us of things we never knew — like the impossibility of Heaven, and the reality of our singular, inescapable loneliness.
Ten years ago, we started Tropics of Meta. The world of 8,000-word essays about Detroit wartime housing would never be the same.
In his dying years, Tony Judt cautioned us that remembering the 20th century just as a catalog of horrors flattens what actually happened.
A jittery world watches fascism on the march from Bolivia to India, and Twitter importantly doubles down on Indian food.