Print/Screen Archives - Public Books https://www.publicbooks.org/section/print-screen/ a magazine of ideas, arts, and scholarship Sat, 17 Jan 2026 02:16:48 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://www.publicbooks.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/cropped-favicon-2-300x300.png Print/Screen Archives - Public Books https://www.publicbooks.org/section/print-screen/ 32 32 You Could Use the Exercise https://www.publicbooks.org/you-could-use-the-exercise/ Thu, 19 Sep 2024 15:00:05 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=57208 In the face of AI, the time is right to practice our writing techniques for invention and surprise.

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]]> Life inside the Fiction Factory: Dan Sinykin on Conglomerate Publishing https://www.publicbooks.org/life-inside-the-fiction-factory-dan-sinykin-on-conglomerate-publishing/ Wed, 24 Jan 2024 16:00:54 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=54853 “An author’s photo is more appealing to the consumer than the publisher’s colophon.”

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]]> Tickets Are for Remembering https://www.publicbooks.org/tickets-are-for-remembering/ Tue, 23 Jan 2024 16:00:51 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=54709 Playbills, programs, tickets: such physical documents are no longer part of seeing a show on Broadway. Does it matter?

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]]> “Why Do We Go On Pretending?”: Theater at the End of the World https://www.publicbooks.org/why-do-we-go-on-pretending-theater-at-the-end-of-the-world/ Mon, 22 Jan 2024 16:00:44 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=54828 The theatre is where we go to remind ourselves that we are all dying together, and to live better for it.

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]]> There Is No Such Thing as a Good Book: On “The Art of Libromancy” https://www.publicbooks.org/there-is-no-such-thing-as-a-good-book/ Tue, 12 Dec 2023 16:00:15 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=54585 "I do not think bookselling is an art. I think it is a job."

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]]> This Is Your Brain on Books https://www.publicbooks.org/this-is-your-brain-on-books/ Wed, 22 Nov 2023 16:00:21 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=54302 “Reading occupies a strange position in today’s world, being at once physiologically unnecessary and culturally central.”

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]]> Slanting the History of Handwriting https://www.publicbooks.org/slanting-the-history-of-handwriting/ Wed, 09 Aug 2023 15:00:49 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=53013 Whatever writing is today, it is not self-evident.

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]]> “If It Bleeds, We Can Kill It”: Ander Monson on “Predator” and the Monster of American Masculinity https://www.publicbooks.org/if-it-bleeds-we-can-kill-it-ander-monson-on-predator-and-the-monster-of-american-masculinity/ Tue, 13 Jun 2023 15:00:09 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=52650 “I see actual male friendship, in a way that I don't in almost any other action movie from the 80s.”

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]]> Ogden & Hardwick’s Everyday Enigmas https://www.publicbooks.org/ogden-hardwicks-everyday-enigmas/ Thu, 13 Apr 2023 15:00:07 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=51872 “Good afternoon, ma’am. Do you ever feel that it is so hard to know how to be happy?”

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]]> How To Scuttle A Public Broadcaster https://www.publicbooks.org/bbc-history-how-to-scuttle-a-public-broadcaster/ Fri, 02 Dec 2022 16:00:18 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=51026 On the 100th anniversary of the founding of the BBC, national public broadcasters across the world are still subject to constant spurious attacks.

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