• Oct 2026: The First Social Network (The New Yorker)
  In rural Patagonia, isolated shepherds and gauchos still send each other personal messages over a daily AM radio program. A portrait of a community held together by a technology most of the world has abandoned.
• Aug 2026: The Children a Scientist Took Home (The New Yorker)
  Carleton Gajdusek won a Nobel Prize for his work on a disease in Papua New Guinea, but his biggest experiment was on the children he brought back to the U.S. A look at the ethics and human cost of his life’s work.
• Feb 2023: ChatGPT Is a Blurry JPEG of the Web (The New Yorker)
  Ted Chiang likens large language models to lossy compression: they return paraphrases of the web rather than exact quotes. He argues this shapes what we should expect from them, and whether we’d prefer them to search.
• Apr 2020: Baking Bread in Lyon (The New Yorker)
  Bill Buford, a newcomer to Lyon, apprentices at a neighborhood boulangerie. He finds that learning to bake bread reveals a whole way of life.