Entertainment, Weakly

The Province of Hacks

To want to write well: sometimes you can feel the need for it or urge toward it, like running your tongue along your teeth.

Oct 16 • 

Patrick Nathan

26

1

September 2025

The Unclaimed Moment

Living with the internet is living with a memory machine.

Sep 16 • 

Patrick Nathan

30

4

The Future of Criticism

They do, it turns out, build statues to critics.

Sep 9 • 

Patrick Nathan

37

5

We're Back!

And so are paid subscriptions

Sep 5 • 

Patrick Nathan

15

3

August 2025

Soul Searching (Reprise)

With its overtone of loss, nostalgia isn't homesickness, but time sickness.

Aug 14 • 

Patrick Nathan

31

3

July 2025

L’Age de l’écran

The United States is probably the ur-example of what happens to a country when you use consumer technology to take society apart.

Jul 22 • 

Patrick Nathan

45

9

June 2025

Pride and Paperbacks

and an excerpt from The Future Was Color

Jun 10 • 

Patrick Nathan

20

2

Packing My Library

What I want from my shelves, as I pack them up, is criticism. Here are a few of my favorites.

Jun 3 • 

Patrick Nathan

38

May 2025

Sentimental Materialism

When I was growing up, the zeitgeist said to fear and despise the office cubicle. Today, most people live in them.

May 6 • 

Patrick Nathan

39

14

April 2025

A Century Later, Tom and Daisy Are Still Ruining Our Lives

There’s a sense in the novel that, unless we have the language for something, it’s not real and it has no future.

Apr 8 • 

Patrick Nathan

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Danny Maloney

33

4

April Hates U

Eliot and I have at least one thing in common: Some people never get over being raised in the Midwest.

Apr 1 • 

Patrick Nathan

42

6

March 2025

Art on the Run

Personally, I do not see myself in competition with Mark Zuckerberg’s computer.

Mar 25 • 

Patrick Nathan

39

7