TikTok's debut as a US-controlled company last month did not go well. At all. Some commentators, in fact, called it a disaster. But as they say, things can only get better. TikTok's calamitous moment began on January 22, when its Chinese parent company, ByteDance, finalized a deal to sell the app to a group of US investors favored by President Trump, among them the business software giant Oracle. Right off the bat, the new ownership altered the app's privacy policy to permit more extensive data collection, including tracking the precise locations of its users, who then began deleting TiKTok in droves. The platform also suffered from multiple bugs, as a new competitor roared to life.

  Anniversaries are probably celebrated more by publishers than by lovers—so as a book-lover I’m taking this opportunity to celebrate a book that came into my hands almost ten years ago: Isamu Noguchi: A Sculptor’s World (Steidl 2018).This is a great time to take a deep dive into this exceptional publication, in light of the exhibition, Noguchi’s New York, which just opened at the Noguchi Garden and Museum,. The book went out of print around 2022, but...