Eve to Roll Out Its First Matter Updates This December
The celebrated Matter smart home standard finally launched in early October. Still, products need to go through a lengthy certification process before they can gain full...
Nanoleaf Announces Budget-Friendly Matter-Compatible Bulbs and Lightstrips
Great news for fans of economical smart home lighting excited about the new Matter smart home standard. Nanoleaf is adding Matter support to its Essentials line....
The Cruelties of Empire
In the heyday of colonialism decades ago, when the British Empire controlled so much of the world, it was tempting to think of it as more...
A Vivisectional Style
John Donne was a contemporary of Shakespeare. This is strangely difficult to remember, for they had contrary relationships to poetic traditions and trends. Like other English...
Empty Spaces
There are empty spaces we makeand empty spaces we grow accustomed to, as though they were alwaysthere—a gold mine you can descend an hour into by...
Clay Genius
In my cabinet I have a cream-colored soup plate, purchased in the early 1990s at an antique store in Greenwich Village. For me it was rather...
Originalism’s Charade
The Supreme Court’s decision in June 2022 to overrule Roe v. Wade and erase the constitutional right to abortion was the culmination of a half-century-long campaign...
Pakistan Submerged
Some two thousand years ago, in 325 BC, after a string of conquests across the Indus plains, the forces of Alexander of Macedon mutinied on the...
Models for Being
When they were undergraduates at Berkeley in the 1990s, Hua Hsu’s friend Ken was murdered, randomly and wantonly, in a carjacking. That is the precipitating cause...
Village People
It is not uncommon for a novel to try to convince its readers that they should care. It is far less common for a novel to...
