Readings

The Awl cofounder’s new book is about New York, and the Recession, and the pastimes of young guys in the city—but it’s also about the very human tendency to screw around in the face of creeping fear and anxiety.

Clive Thompson’s Smarter Than You Think is something long overdue: a book that gets excited about the internet’s possibilities—for social life, for creativity, for thought—and how we’re already working them into our daily lives.