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

The Wende’s Soviet Hippie collection contains ephemera that dovetails with the current moment, and aims to “illuminate the political and cultural changes of the past” and “offer opportunities to make sense of a changing present.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 28, 2026

The new complex’s museum presents a bland, uninspiring collection of ephemera.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 18, 2026

Games back then were rapt-audience monuments, not ephemera to glance at while futzing around group texts and prediction market apps.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 30, 2026

To him they were but the ephemera of the long summertide of jurisprudence.

From Charles Sumner Centenary The American Negro Academy. Occasional Papers No. 14 by Archibald Henry Grimké

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

I do not, however, mean to say that they are the same flies, but more probably successive generations of ephemerae of the same species.

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

Born of the sunshine, on a morning in late December, gray ephemerae danced and dipped and fashioned vanishing patterns against the green of the great laurel at the corner of Drift farmyard.

From Lying Prophets by Eden Phillpotts

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

Above, against the slaty-gray cloud-wrack, four exquisite slender girl-forms appeared, with loose hair, silver-gray drapery and gauzy wings as of ephemerae, flying in pursuit of the cloud.

From A Crystal Age by W. H. (William Henry) Hudson

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