The Election Just Ended and We Already Have a New Michael Wolff Book
In “All or Nothing,” the Trump biographer shows that he is his favorite subject’s perfect twin. Nicolas Niarchos is a ...
Could AI understand Nietzsche? Maybe with the help of these scholars.
If you’re confused by a turn of phrase in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby” or a startling metaphor in Kafka’s “Metamorphosis,” just ask the book to explain itself, and it will.
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The Trailblazing Black Librarian Who Rewrote the Rules of Power, Gender and Racial Passing
Belle da Costa Greene, the first director of the Morgan Library, was a Black woman who passed as white in the early 20th ...
Why Children Love Edward Gorey: A Centenary Tribute
He made the uncanny cool for a kid like me, whose dollhouse contained a miniature Ouija board in the child’s room and a ghost made of Kleenex and cotton balls in the attic.
From satire to serious journalism – how The New Yorker has shaped a century of thought
The magazine has gained a cult following, partly by branding itself as a beacon of intellectualism. Here’s how it has changed ...
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Han Kang is South Korea’s pride—and its conscience
Ms Han’s book and her Nobel prize are “catalysts” for renewed interest in the tragedy, says Chon Yeong-mi of the Jeju History ...
Longtime James Bond producers give up creative control to Amazon MGM Studios
Amazon MGM Studios and longtime 007 producers Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli have formed a new joint venture to house ...
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Memoir explores author’s eye-opening family history
Journalist Lee Hawkins details the eye-opening discoveries revealed during his search to fill in the gaps of his family ...
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AI trained on novels tracks how racist and sexist biases have evolved
Questioning a chatbot that has been trained on bestselling books from a particular decade can give researchers a measure of the social biases of that era ...