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Show, Don’t Tell
Pio Ricci, Das bewunderte Geschenk (The Admired Gift), 1919, oil on canvas. Recently someone gave me a book. It was a book, she said, that she knew I would love. She had read it and thought of me at...
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Down to the Wireless
Mike Licht, Women of Wi-Fi, after Caillebotte. Image via Flickr Someone in my building—or maybe two different people, I don’t know—rejoices in cruel, taunting names for his wireless networks:...
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Man Versus Machine, Part 1,000,000,001, and Other News
In 1959, the Mark 1 Translating Device produced its first automated Russian-to-English translation. The Mark 1 was demonstrated for the public at the IBM Pavilion at the New York World’s Fair in 1964....
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Anagramming the News
Child’s play. Ed. Note: every month, the Daily features a puzzle by Dylan Hicks. The first list of correct answers wins a year’s subscription to The Paris Review. (In the event that no one can get...
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Anagramming the News: The Answers
Child’s play. Ed. Note: last week’s puzzle contest is officially over—thanks to all who entered. Our winner this time is Daria Mikolajczak, who gets a free subscription to the Review. Congratulations,...
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