Archive - Musement

A review of Everything and Less: the Novel in the Age of Amazon, by Mark McGurl

Jul 31, 2022

How a letter from Archimedes survived the collapse of several empires, fire, mold, forgery, and literal erasure

Aug 8, 2021

What recent extortion schemes tell us about the Internet's favorite book site

Sep 5, 2021

A review of Tim Hwang's The Subprime Attention Crisis, and what it might mean for online writing

Nov 6, 2022

My contribution to an overstuffed genre

Jan 17, 2022

The world's oldest epic, from cuneiform to computers

Apr 3, 2022

Pulled from the archives

Sep 14, 2022

Two non-reviews of books about Haruki Murakami, and a balanced breakfast recipe

Feb 8

Mold will consume us all, but it doesn't have to consume your books yet

Nov 13, 2022

What could artificial intelligence do to literature?

Jul 4, 2022

Melvil Dewey's quest to make the perfect script

Feb 22

And a few other observations on Katherine Rundell's life of John Donne

Dec 20, 2022

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