Wave your cellphone in the air! You’re a hero! You caught everything on camera! You got everything on tape!

There is a middle term between bomb, gun & book: its excuse is public safety, it is for private profit—and soon everything is going to have something that does it, that harvests your data (and turns it into cash), whether you like it or not. And that thing is

Edwin Frank writes: "Trembling instability" describes the mobile perspective of Lawrence's novels (if they were films, the camera would be handheld). Lawrence writes, as I have said, with an almost somatic immediacy from the point of view of his characters. He also and equally writes from

… in feudal society, a phenomenon that was strictly unique to Japan and Europe could be seen in the fact that cities were places of confinement. People did not flee to the city; rather, they were trapped there. For example, Jews were strictly denied the right to buy land. They were