Links for Sep 21, 2026

What's wrong with seeing the world as just data for the computer… and other longreads for your reading pleasure. Who Will Taste the Cherries?, by Liam Spradlin, Aeon A Slowed-Down Kind of Loving, by Rowland Bagnall, Los Angeles Review of Books Jonathan Franzen: ‘It’s Still Mysterious to Me that I Was Angry for So Long’, by Sophie McBain, The Guardian I was asked to write a new Miss Marple, so I sent her to the Alps, by Lucy Foley, The Guardian

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