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Ada Limón Won’t Let Prose Touch the Poetry on Her Shelves
What books are on your night stand? My night stand doesn’t speak to me anymore. That’s because, here’s the truth: I don’t read at night. The night stand is where books go to die. I think that I’ll read something before bed and then I immediately fall ...
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How Robots Learned to Write So Well
“Literary Theory for Robots,” by Dennis Yi Tenen, a software engineer turned literature professor, shows how the “intelligence” in artificial intelligence is irreducibly human.
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‘All of Us Strangers’ Review: A Soul Longing for the Impossible
Playing a man alienated from himself and looking for answers, Andrew Scott makes this film sing.
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Dan Greenburg, Who Poked Fun With His Pen, Dies at 87
Women, sex and Jewish mothers were just some of the targets of his popular satirical writing in books, essays, screenplays and more.
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Still Annoyed at Biden, New Hampshire Democrats Gear Up to Help Him
Despite being bumped down the presidential calendar, Democrats in the state are planning a write-in campaign for the president, who won’t be on New Hampshire primary ballots.
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A History of Chinese Food, and a Sensory Feast
Fuchsia Dunlop’s “Invitation to a Banquet” is a cultural investigation of an impossibly broad and often misunderstood cuisine.
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Salman Rushdie to Write Memoir About Stabbing Attack
Rushdie, who was grievously injured onstage last year, said the forthcoming book was a way “to answer violence with art.”
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Lori Teresa Yearwood, Journalist of Life on the Edge, Dies at 57
Once a reporter for The Miami Herald, she became homeless. She later returned to journalism, calling on her experience to cover the continuing homelessness crisis.
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The Book That Made R.J. Palacio Cry on the Subway
What books are on your night stand? “We, the Drowned,” by Carsten Jensen; “The Betrothed,” by Alessandro Manzoni; “Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World,” by Rutger Bregman; and “Binti,” by Nnedi Okorafor. What’s the last great book ...
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Hollywood Writers and Studios to Restart Talks After 3-Month Standoff
A strike by writers and actors has caused nearly a complete production shutdown of scripted entertainment.
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