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Author: Matthew Battles

Part of the founding HILOBROW crew, Matthew Battles is a maker and thinker whose work merges literary, scholarly, and artistic forms of inquiry. His writing on the cultural dimensions of science and technology has appeared in such venues as The Atlantic, Harper’s Magazine, and Orion. His most recent book,Tree, was published in Bloomsbury's Object Lessons series in 2017. After ten years exploring the dark abundance of libraries and museums with metaLAB (at) Harvard, Matthew now edits Arnoldia: the Nature of Trees, the magazine of the Arnold Arboretum.

Bicycle Kick (12)

By: Matthew Battles

For cyclists, utopia is unevenly distributed.

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Mechanical Muse Redux

By: Matthew Battles

Mashing up iPad and the haunted machine.

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Basil Rathbone

By: Matthew Battles

His roles were acquainted with the shadows.

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Rope-a-dope (2)

By: Matthew Battles

His robe fell away from him and he stepped forth.

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You Make Me Feel

By: Matthew Battles

There is no place that does not see you.

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Hilo Polo

By: Matthew Battles

Dashing across the countryside in pursuit of an enigma.

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Time Capsules

By: Matthew Battles

The tale of a hectic dose of freedom in the swerve.

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Simulacra (2)

By: Matthew Battles

Tattoos real, fake, and tricky.

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Francis Crick

By: Matthew Battles

Peering into life’s most intimate redoubt.

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The Feral Muse (1)

By: Matthew Battles

Between the wild and the domesticated, a hunger that abides.

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Simulacra (1)

By: Matthew Battles

Driving is a spectacular form of amnesia.

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Rope-a-dope (1)

By: Matthew Battles

Flurries of jolting punches, terrific grinding of jaws…

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Unprecedented

By: Matthew Battles

Oil, catastrophe, & the jargon of shock & awe.

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We Reabsorb & Enliven (6)

By: Matthew Battles

William Least Heat-Moon’s jumble of text, habit, & heartbreak.

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A Simple Message

By: Matthew Battles

From an alien intelligence, a word to the wise.

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