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February 9, 2011

Alone Together

By SHERRY TURKLE
Reviewed by Andrew Keen

An investigation into digital connectivity and the loss of intimate human communication.

 

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May 26, 2010

Hunger Artists

Essay by Andrew Keen

Originality, plagiarism, and creativity—Andrew Keen on Helene Hegemann, Reality Hunger, and The Authenticity Hoax.

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About the Columnist
Andrew Keen is author of the 2007 international hit The Cult of the Amateur, which has been translated into fifteen foreign languages. He writes a weekly column about culture, technology and media for the London Daily Telegraph and regularly tweets at www.twitter.com/ajkeen.
Daybook

May 18: Parade, the "first modern ballet," premiered in Paris on this day in 1917. The production was a collaboration of some of modernism's most famous -- music by Erik Satie, scenario by Jean Cocteau, costumes by Picasso,…

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Previously in Daybook
In the Margin

Ethan Rutherford and Matt Burgess (Dogfight: A Love Story) on the writing of Rutherford's surreal and fiercely funny story collection The Peripatetic Coffin. 

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The Long List
Books, CDs, DVDs to know about now
Minotaur

This newly reissued Cold War classic profiles an Israeli spy obsessed with an English girl half his age, and his attempts to win her love without ever revealing his true identity.

The Innocence Game

Three Chicago journalism students attend an “innocence” seminar that will teach them how to release the wrongfully accused from prison. But as innocents are jailed, a killer roams free, and the students are next on the hit list.

Little Green

Walter Mosley's suave detective Easy Rawlins is back among the living after a literal cliffhanger of a car crash, in pursuit of a  LSD-addled boxer roaming Los Angeles, 1967.