books
Computers were supposed to be good (The Nation)
Non-friction (Times Literary Supplement)
Keep calm and carry on (Los Angeles Review of Books)
A writer's haunting trip through the horrors of Indonesian history (The New Yorker)
Leapfrogging nationalism (The Australian)
The shame of social media (The Australian)
Technology + science
A waiting room of one's own (The Baffler)
Austerity is an algorithm (Logic Magazine)
No more period dramas (The Economist)
Red light therapy (The Saturday Paper)
I can't believe it's not beef (The Economist)
From lulz to labor unions: the evolution of Anonymous (The Atlantic)
Travel / tales from abroad
Jurassic lark (The Saturday Paper)
Neon liberalism (The Saturday Paper)
Springs eternal (The Saturday Paper)
Indonesia is no longer a poster child for pluralism (The Guardian)
Jakarta’s urban nightmare (Foreign Policy)
Economics
Econospeak (The New Inquiry, Salon)
Problems follow Western Australia’s mining successes (The Guardian)
The impossible dream (Meanjin)