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The Machines Are Coming, and They Write Really Bad Poetry

The Machines Are Coming, and They Write Really Bad Poetry

(But Don't Tell Them We Said So)

By Dennis Tang | January 27, 2020

Did Tolkien Write <em>The Lord of the Rings</em> Because He Was Avoiding His Academic Work?

Did Tolkien Write The Lord of the Rings Because He Was Avoiding His Academic Work?

How a Literary Icon Always Felt Guilty About His
Failings With Chaucer

By John M. Bowers | January 27, 2020

Patrick Modiano on the Bookshop Owner Who Escaped the Nazis

Patrick Modiano on the Bookshop Owner Who Escaped the Nazis

Françoise Frenkel's No Place to Lay One’s Head Belongs in the Company of Literary Giants

By Patrick Modiano | January 27, 2020

An Illustrated Reading List of Groundbreaking Mixed-Media Literature

An Illustrated Reading List of Groundbreaking Mixed-Media Literature

Nathan Holic on Some of His Favorite Graphic Texts

By Nathan Holic | January 27, 2020

<em>Behind the Mic</em>: On <em>Imperfect Union</em> by Steve Inskeep, Read by the Man Himself

Behind the Mic: On Imperfect Union by Steve Inskeep, Read by the Man Himself

Jonathan Smith Talks to Jo Reed About the Morning Edition Host’s New Book.

By Behind the Mic | January 27, 2020

Searching for <em>Guernica</em>: A Night at the Museum with Picasso

Searching for Guernica: A Night at the Museum with Picasso

An Art World Sleepover with Adel Abdessemed and Christophe Ono-dit-Biot

By Christophe Ono-dit-Biot and Adel Abdessemed | January 27, 2020

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Lia Purpura on the Horrified Wonder and Holiness of Death

By Emergence Magazine | January 27, 2020

Ethan Rutherford on His Love for Short Story Collections

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing | January 27, 2020

Americans Are Right To Think the Economy Is Rigged

By Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn | January 24, 2020

How to Know If a Movie Actually Sucks or If the Russians Are Trying to Trick You

How to Know If a Movie Actually Sucks or If the Russians Are Trying to Trick You

Bob Garfield Has a Plan for Overhauling Media Literacy

By Bob Garfield | January 24, 2020

5 Great Audiobooks About Iconic Musicians

5 Great Audiobooks About Iconic Musicians

Prince, Janis, Karen, and More...

By James Tate Hill | January 24, 2020

How, Exactly, Does Neuroscience Account for the Way We See Color?

How, Exactly, Does Neuroscience Account for the Way We See Color?

Riccardo Manzotti and Tim Parks Debate the Internalist View of Consciousness

By Riccardo Manzotti and Tim Parks | January 24, 2020

On the Rise of the Vietnamese Noodle Shop in <br>Anchorage, Alaska

On the Rise of the Vietnamese Noodle Shop in
Anchorage, Alaska

How Did Pho Come to Dominate in the Far North?

By Julia O'Malley | January 24, 2020

A Bad Marriage, a Good Dog, and the Beginning of a Long Career

A Bad Marriage, a Good Dog, and the Beginning of a Long Career

Ben Moon Remembers His Late Friend, Denali

By Ben Moon | January 24, 2020

'Is the Newspaper Office the Place<br> for a Girl?'

'Is the Newspaper Office the Place
for a Girl?'

On Life as a Female Reporter at the Turn of the Century

By Julie Des Jardins | January 24, 2020

Robert Boyers on the Tipping Point of Today's Culture Wars

Robert Boyers on the Tipping Point of Today's Culture Wars

The Author of The Tyranny of Virtue on the Literary Life with Mitchell Kaplan

By The Literary Life | January 24, 2020

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