ephemera

Schoenbrun confidently guides readers down winding, interconnected roads, bouncing between online cults and peculiar digital ephemera to weave a gripping search for truth in a time when the internet has made everything fiction.

From Salon ● Oct. 29, 2026

This level of detail is the essence of his songwriting—by singling out the character actor from films like “Contact” and “Armageddon,” he shows how we fixate on ephemera as a way of avoiding existential terror.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026

At mid-century, the word “design” implied fashionable ephemera, whereas Noguchi’s own work—furniture as well as sculptures—pursued something more enduring: the aesthetic orchestration of forms, pressures, space and human communication.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 1, 2026

The idea is to show ephemera that is beaten and weathered, says Worthington.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 18, 2026

Here old earth Warms up in the April sun; And the first ephemera, wings yet wet, From the mould creep one by one.

From The Ontario Readers: Fourth Book by Ontario. Ministry of Education

Scanning the globe and the human ephemerae upon it from the point of view of a millionaire in years, Wells still considers that "Nazi Germany may well bring down conclusive disaster on our species."

From Time Magazine Archive

Then there are the blue and the brown, both ephemerae, which come on, the first in dark days, the second in bright days; these flies, when well imitated, are very destructive to fish.

From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 324, July 26, 1828 by Various

A curious thing about that night was a swarm of ephemerae so dense that it was like a blinding snowstorm.

From Philip Gilbert Hamerton An Autobiography, 1834-1858, and a Memoir by His Wife, 1858-1894 by Philip Gilbert Hamerton

Verily for us, the ephemerae of thought, this unbroken continuity of the sun of Egypt has more of melancholy even than the changing, overcast skies of our climate.

From Egypt (La Mort de Philae) by William Peter Baines

He should neither praise nor blame nor defend his equals; he should not strike one blow at the buzzing ephemerae of letters.

From Letters to Dead Authors by Andrew Lang

To talk of "relaxations," whether in cultural or political control, or of economic or social reform, is to talk of ephemeras.

From Time Magazine Archive