Culture
The Essay Is Back, and It Is Angry
Long-form personal essays are outperforming news articles on every engagement metric. Readers, it turns out, still want a human voice talking to them like an adult.
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Architecture's Identity Crisis: When Every Building Looks Like a Render
The global convergence of architectural style — all glass, all curves, all parametric — is producing cities that look designed by the same algorithm. Which, increasingly, they were.
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The Slow Death of the Album and What Comes Next
Streaming metrics have made the album an economic anomaly. A generation of artists is building around singles, playlists, and live shows instead. Some are finding it liberating.