The trackpad is tiny. After all these many years of gargantuan trackpads, this one feels ever so small. Like a trackpad for ants, measuring 10cm x 4cm. For comparison the trackpad on a 2018 13" MacBoo

3/22/2020 The Cultural Constants of Contagion News Abroad Ed Simon is the associate editor of The Marginalia Review of Books, a channel of The Los Angeles Review of Books. He holds a PhD in English fr

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Happy New Year! This week is an opportunity to ponder decade-long trend arcs and make grandiose pronouncements of what the last ten years were “about,” and I’ll gladly indulge. During the holidays, I usually watch more movies and TV shows than I do the entire rest of the year (time I’d otherwise…