• Technology

    Travel

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    By Brittany Allen  August 22, 2025
    The Hub

    Here’s what’s making us happy this week.

    By Brittany Allen  August 15, 2025
    Mathematics

    Ruled by Numbers: How Data Dominates Every Facet of Our Daily Lives

    By Noah Giansiracusa  August 12, 2025
    Literary History

    On “Mocha Dick,” the White Whale of the Pacific that Influenced Herman Melville

    By Tim Queeney  August 12, 2025
    The Hub

    Here’s everything that made us happy this week.

    By Brittany Allen  August 8, 2025
    A.I.

    What Happened When I Tried to Replace Myself with ChatGPT in My English Classroom

    By Piers Gelly  July 28, 2025
    Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying
    Politics

    Truth Optional: How Digital Platforms Replaced the Press and Democracy Took the Hit

    By Aron Solomon  July 23, 2025
    The Hub

    Apparently, comparing someone’s writing to AI is now a “classist slur;” and other news.

    By James Folta  July 22, 2025
    Photography

    Flashes of Brilliance: The 19th-Century Innovations That Shaped Modern Photography

    By Anika Burgess  July 17, 2025
    Literary Trends

    Desperately Seeking Bygone Media

    Ginny Hogan on Recent Books that Satisfy the Longing for Slow Communication

    By Ginny Hogan  August 22, 2025
    Language

    Algorithm On Fleek: How TikTok is Transforming the English Language

    By Adam Aleksic  July 15, 2025
    The Hub

    Why architecture is like literature: On the Shanghai city block that went for a walk.

    By James Folta  July 11, 2025
    The Hub

    The case against Substack. (ICYMI)

    By Brittany Allen  July 10, 2025
    Am I the Literary Asshole?

    If You Use AI in Your Writing YOU Are the Literary Asshole

    Kristen Arnett Answers Your Awkward Questions About (Very) Bad Literary Behavior

    By Kristen Arnett  July 10, 2025
    Violence

    How Much is Too Much? On Bearing Witness to Violence in the Digital Age

    By Will Potter  July 7, 2025
    The Hub

    Here’s everything that made us happy this week.

    By Brittany Allen  July 3, 2025
    Corporate America

    Doomsday Profiteers: On Corporate America’s Y2K Response

    By Leigh Claire La Berge  July 1, 2025
    AI

    The Courts Just Made Our Libraries Sitting Ducks For AI Plundering

    Aron Solomon on the Uses and Abuses of “Fair Use”

    By Aron Solomon  June 27, 2025
    AI

    Against AI: An Open Letter From Writers to Publishers

    By Literary Hub  June 27, 2025
    Artificial Intelligence

    What Would Happen If the Chatbots Broke Free of Their Masters?

    By Paul Bradley Carr  June 26, 2025
    The Hub

    AI will make you a dumber writer, says science.

    By James Folta  June 24, 2025
    Travel

    Here’s what’s making us happy this week.

    By Brittany Allen  June 20, 2025
    Writing the Novel

    Tired of Telling Just One Kind of Truth: On Moving from Journalism to Fiction

    By Janelle Brown  June 12, 2025
    The Hub

    Here’s what’s making us happy this week.

    By Brittany Allen  June 6, 2025
    The Hub

    The definitive ranking of reading technologies.

    By James Folta  July 15, 2025
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