I wish I had Highlights for iOS and iPadOS when I was a lawyer. Back then, it wasn’t unusual for me to review PDFs of legal documents that were hundreds of pages long. Unfortunately, the digital tools I had for annotating those documents were primitive. So instead, I typically fell back on marking up hard

Philip Roth reviews his own biographer

Welcome to May, reporters! I recently used a tool called Hypothes.is, which allows you to make annotations on live webpages. That’s not a new idea by any means, but what stuck out to me was that you can send it to collaborators very easily. When you annotate a webpage, it create a custom link, starting with “https://via.hypothes.is/”, that you send to other people.

Reading Progress is designed to improve reading skills.

Artist Heather Benjamin discusses the importance of homemade zines, why she continues to switch up her process, the complications of running your own business, and why art school wasn't useful.

Literary Lingo While serving in World War II, Joseph Heller concluded that war was a farce in which anyone crazy enough to shirk combat was considered sane enough to fight. That became the theme of…

When a book passes into the public domain, it means not only that it’s available for adapting and remixing, but for reprinting and reselling with a brand new cover. Some of these covers are .…

“To be truly countercultural in a time of tech hegemony, one has to, above all, betray the platform.”

The activist and linguist has serious concerns about the future of American democracy, although, in his view, it “was never much to write home about.”

"It was weird and very scary"

A virtual semester showed college students the value of community

Student-led mutual aid networks have raised tens of thousands of dollars to help peers cover basic costs of living.

“This is a work of criticism. If it were literary criticism, everyone would immediately understand the underlying purpose is positive. A critic of literature examines a work, analyzing its features, evaluating its qualities, seeking a deeper appreciation that might be useful to other readers of the same text. In a similar way, critics of music, […]

The future of remote learning with Sal Khan of Khan Academy.

The problem is I can’t make up my mind about confession.

In Not Your Mother’s Morals: How the New Sincerity is Changing Pop Culture for the Better, Jonathan D. Fitzgerald argues that today’s popular music, movies, TV shows, and books are making the world a better place. For all the hand-wringing about the decline of morals and the cheapening of culture in our time, contemporary media brims with examples of fascinating and innovative art that promote positive and uplifting moral messages—without coming across as “preachy.”

The movement away from irony and toward sincerity is reflected in the so-called "authenticity" advantage Trump holds over his rivals.

In our lead article this month Wei-Meng Lee introduces you to the Go language and shares why companies are flocking to it. Paul Sheriff explores geolocation and working with Google Maps, Editor Rod Paddock talks about the challenges we face today in the shadow of COVID-19 and the temporary and more lasting changes in the “new normal”, CODE Publisher Markus Egger shares part 2 of his interview with Microsoft Regional Director, Dr. Neil Roodyn, and that’s not even half of the magazine!

First came the declaration of war on The New York Times’s 1619 Project, which examines the way slavery has shaped American society and national identity.