Eli Burnstein
Eli Burnstein is a Toronto-based writer and editor whose pieces have been published online in The New Yorker, McSweeney’s, The Alpine Review, and Lapham’s Quarterly. He is the coauthor of Parachutes (an Alpine Review project) and the founder and host of Spelling Bae, a language competition for adults.
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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.
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Lewis Lapham argues that there’s a reason good writing is hard to find on the internet. What is good writing, anyway?
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When we remember everything, do we understand anything?
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For those who believe in the theory of the 'great stagnation', the enduring B52 is probably its most iconic attestation. A superb example of good design and engineering but, alas, it also feels like a failure of progress.
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As we increasingly operate according to the algorithms and information architecture of the internet, we learn not only to write like computers, but think like them too.
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Paris city authorities rewrote traffic laws to allow cyclists to run red lights—or griller le feu—at 1,800 T-junctions across the city, legitimizing a common practice and integrating bicycle behavior more deeply into urban infrastructure.
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From rainbow-filtered Facebook profile pictures to the backlash against Justine Sacco’s infamous AIDS tweet, social media is increasingly used to speak out against (or in favor of) various issues.
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The driverless car is more than just a passive mode of transport. It entails a new form of city life. As we make the shift from drivers to supervisors and from owners to users, we can expect a variety of transformations to take place.
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As we learn to think “hypertextually,” we can only begin to guess at what new mental spaces we might be carving out for ourselves.
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