Reviews A Digital Balm for Our Angst: On Sven Birkerts’s ‘Changing the Subject’ Caitlin Mackenzie - 11.23.2015 | 3 The question is not whether checking your phone at dinner is rude (it is) but what’s lost in every moment we recede from the present into the plastic. Caitlin Mackenzie - 11.23.2015 | 3