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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

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

Emily Greenhouse on the Whole Self

Emily Greenhouse on the Whole Self

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By The Critic and Her Publics | January 28, 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

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Jack Torrance and Me: On Writing and Self-Loathing in <em>The Shining</em>

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Alan Shapiro on Inspiration

Alan Shapiro on Inspiration

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By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing | January 27, 2025

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The Shape of a Story: On Losing (and Finding) the Plot of Your Novel

Emma Knight: “As the character in this story, I’ve evolved at least to this extent: it’s no longer plot I’m afraid of.”

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Betty Shamieh on the Next Generation of Palestinian Fiction

Betty Shamieh on the Next Generation of Palestinian Fiction

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“When I Quit Drinking I Quit Writing.” Matthew Nienow on Stumbling Back Into Poetic Vulnerability

“When I Quit Drinking I Quit Writing.” Matthew Nienow on Stumbling Back Into Poetic Vulnerability

“I wrote into that darkness because that kind of honesty was the only thing that felt right.”

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Trump 2.0: What the Book World Should Do Now

Trump 2.0: What the Book World Should Do Now

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