What If Instead of Making Paperclips We Asked an AI Super-Intelligence to Make Us All Happy?

What If Instead of Making Paperclips We Asked an AI Super-Intelligence to Make Us All Happy?

Deni Ellis Béchard Considers the Role of Artificial Intelligence in Worlds Fictional and Real

By Deni Ellis Béchard | January 29, 2025

More Than a Muse: Kay Sohini on Discovering Literary New York

More Than a Muse: Kay Sohini on Discovering Literary New York

From Her Graphic Memoir “This Beautiful, Ridiculous City”

By Kay Sohini | January 29, 2025

Will Humanity Ever Fully Include the Nonhuman World in Its Moral Circle?

Will Humanity Ever Fully Include the Nonhuman World in Its Moral Circle?

Jeff Sebo on Our Attempts to Measure Intrinsic Value

By Jeff Sebo | January 29, 2025

Humanity’s Claustrophobia: How Technology and Globalization Created a World in Crisis

Humanity’s Claustrophobia: How Technology and Globalization Created a World in Crisis

Robert D. Kaplan Reflects on Globalization’s Shifting Definitions in the Age of Social Media

By Robert D. Kaplan | January 29, 2025

How an Obscure German Noblewoman Influenced the Way Anne Frank Wrote Her Diary

How an Obscure German Noblewoman Influenced the Way Anne Frank Wrote Her Diary

Biographer Ruth Franklin on the Value of a Careful Eye and Fresh Perspective

By Ruth Franklin | January 29, 2025

André Alexis on Martha Baillie's <em>There Is No Blue</em>

André Alexis on Martha Baillie's There Is No Blue

In Conversation with Michael Kelleher for the Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast

By Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast | January 29, 2025

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How Literature Predicted and Portrayed the Atom Bomb

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Sex, Love and Longing in 1970s Gay New York: Edmund White on His Past Lovers

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How Black and White America Reacted to Maya Angelou’s I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

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“In the Name of the Bee,” a Poem by Pádraig O’ Tuama

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From the Collection “Kitchen Hymns”

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Emily Greenhouse on the Whole Self

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In Conversation with Merve Emre on The Critic and Her Publics

By The Critic and Her Publics | January 28, 2025

Lila Shapiro on the Allegations Against Neil Gaiman

Lila Shapiro on the Allegations Against Neil Gaiman

A Special Episode of “The Lit Hub Podcast”

By The Lit Hub Podcast | January 27, 2025

“Anarchism Means That You Should Be Free.” On the Literature of Liberation

“Anarchism Means That You Should Be Free.” On the Literature of Liberation

Ed Simon Considers the Life Alexander Berkman, Anarchist, Would-Be Assassin, and 19th-Century Luigi Mangione

By Ed Simon | January 27, 2025

<em>Severance</em> is a Realist Manifesto for the 21st Century

Severance is a Realist Manifesto for the 21st Century

Joel Cuthbertson on the Series’ Obsession with Emotional Reality

By Joel Cuthbertson | January 27, 2025

On Trying (and Really Failing) to Design My Own Book Cover

On Trying (and Really Failing) to Design My Own Book Cover

Mary Childs Considers the Virtues of Staying in Your Lane, Despite Her Passion for Graphic Design

By Mary Childs | January 27, 2025

Why Absolute Truth is Still Worth Pursuing In a Narrative-Driven World

Why Absolute Truth is Still Worth Pursuing In a Narrative-Driven World

Jay Nicorvo on Separating Fact From Perception While Writing a True Crime Memoir

By Jay Nicorvo | January 27, 2025

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