The Morning News

Camp ToB 2021

Week Two: No One Is Talking About This

In which we discuss the conclusion of Patricia Lockwood’s No One Is Talking About This, in which we became very invested.

by The Tournament of Books Staff

"Roséwave" felt inappropriate last summer, but now it's the music for "feeling a little lighter and cherishing your loved ones."

↩︎ NPR 3d

Portraits of women who let the gray grow out in their "Covid hair."

↩︎ The New Yorker 3d

An "errand hang" refers to friends doing a task together—eliminating the need for lengthy catch-ups or pressured conversation.

↩︎ Annika Is Dreaming 3d

The 45% of French people who believe in impending civil war help to show (and it is almost sweet) that France remains a nation of braggarts.

Unsurprisingly, Michel Houellebecq looks around Europe and sees cause for anxiety.

↩︎ UnHerd

Tyler Cowen: Crypto's killer app is “decentralized finance,” or DeFi, which could totally rebuild financial market infrastructure.

↩︎ Bloomberg 3d

On the cost of cloud computing: "Scaling companies can justify nearly any level of work that will help keep cloud costs low."

↩︎ Andreessen Horowitz 3d

Between November 2020 and March 2021, artist Jörg Gläscher built nine large waves in the woods near Hamburg.

↩︎ Colossal 3d

BitClout is a stock market for social currency, or at least the value we place on men who are famous for making money.

↩︎ The New Yorker 3d

What if the commute never comes back—or at least not every weekday? How do we replace its ability to detach us from our jobs?

↩︎ The Atlantic 3d

“I wish my parents were here, I wish none of this happened, but truly I feel like I’m a different Kristin. And in some ways, I’m better than I’ve ever been.”

Recent divorcées reflect on 15 months of pent-up emotion. “My motto for 2021 is tits out.”

↩︎ Vanity Fair

Researchers hope that work on long Covid will lead to insights into other post-viral problems. “Let’s not waste a good crisis.”

↩︎ Nature 3d

More children and adolescents are experiencing chronic symptoms after Covid even as the pandemic ebbs in the US.

↩︎ STAT 3d

Who your friends are changes constantly. For a stranger to become a good friend takes about 200 hours of investment.

↩︎ Kottke 3d

In 1963, a French geologist spent two months in a dark cave to investigate time—something he quickly lost the ability to measure.

↩︎ Futility Closet 4d

How did a New Jersey deli become worth $113 million? A "reverse merger" shell game of sorts.

↩︎ The New York Times 4d

Small menus have the power to clarify even muddled visions: Here are the dishes we believe in, says a small menu. We don’t fuck around.

The rise of small menus is a big win for restaurants and for customers.

↩︎ Grub Street

Thawed after 24,000 years in permafrost, Siberian rotifers are able to feed, drink, and reproduce.

↩︎ CNN 4d

Every engineering project has a "factor of safety," but this objective-sounding metric turns out to be as jury-rigged as anything.

↩︎ Why Is This Interesting? 4d

France's abandoned discos, photographed. Why do so many have Egyptian themes?

↩︎ Flashbak 4d