slurp! sloo! my LRB blog on the somerset house show celebrating the beano is up: lrb.co.uk/blog/2021/dece…

time to bring back BIG EGGO: lrb.co.uk/blog/2021/dece…

my* 4Columns piece on beatrix potter at the v&a :) also 👁 😦 🤬 dubdobdee 🤬 😦 👁's if we're being picky

Hallo Thames & Hudson, I emailed your press office about a book I am meant to be reviewing -- but have had no response yet. Name as per this account, DM me if that's easier. Thank you! x ms

i wrote about twitter for the LRB (where i've also written about nigel kennedy and the beano, so a pattern is surely emerging) lrb.co.uk/blog/2022/nove…

‘Even the 280-character limit can be hand-waved as somehow Oulipian; a constraint that generates better invention.’ Mark Sinker on what Twitter taught us, from the blog: lrb.co.uk/blog/2022/nove…

#PopArt Tove Jansson | 4Columns ift.tt/TIqHvu4

it me (writing abt tove) 4columns.org/sinker-mark/to…

“Her subject matter was primarily worry: at disasters real and imagined (comet-fall, floods, chaos), but also at small-scale domestic panics (such as how to mollify unwanted guests).”—Mark Sinker on a new biography of Moomins creator Tove Jansson 4columns.org/sinker-mark/to…

OUT NOW: Melissa E Anderson on the films of Camille Billops and James Hatch, Geeta Dayal on ryuichi sakamoto’s recently released album “12,” Mark Sinker on the “Science Fiction” exhibit Science Museum, and @briangdillon on newly translated Italo Calvino 4columns.org

my 4Columns review of the science fiction show at the science museum is up :) 4columns.org/sinker-mark/sc…

‘Maybe, as the stakes intensify, it’s somehow good that the internet, this vast shivering mirror, is so palpably distorted by the many agendas running through it.’ Mark Sinker (Mark Sinker) on the deterioration of discourse on X/Twitter: lrb.co.uk/blog/2023/nove…

‘“Move fast and break things,” the smart guys kept saying – and more and more things are broken. Bench by bench, the coders are fired; the system glitches and shrivels.’ Mark Sinker (Mark Sinker) on the end of the Platform Era: lrb.co.uk/blog/2023/nove…

‘At the heart of every conspiracy theory is a secret hope that at least someone knows what they’re doing: better a mastermind with a calculated & coherent plan than the inept whims of the billionaire k-hole!’ Mark Sinker Mark Sinker on the end of X: lrb.co.uk/blog/2023/nove…

‘If Twitter is bad (and it is), it’s primarily because it remains so relentless a feed for and from its now untrusted precursors: the TV, radio and print we have never yet escaped.’ Mark Sinker (Mark Sinker) on Twitter dispersed: lrb.co.uk/blog/2023/nove…

Adjacent to my comments earlier: Mark Sinker(⁦Mark Sinker⁩) on the end of Twitter. ‘Our screens are dense with untruth and personation; with shrieking racist scam-bots and bloodthirsty glee.’ lrb.co.uk/blog/2023/nove…