• Technology

    Nonfiction

    From Bowie to Baseball to Bitcoin: Ten Nonfiction Books to Check Out in March

    Featuring Titles by Russell Shorto, Ben Ratliff, Hannah Selinger, and More

     
    By Literary Hub  February 28, 2025
    The Hub

    Next week, Amazon is stripping away your ability to download your ebooks.

    By James Folta  February 19, 2025
    Storytelling

    Novelists, Trust Me: You Can Really Learn a Lot About Storytelling From Video Games Like Elden Ring

    By Nick Newman  February 19, 2025
    Music history

    From the Margins to the Mainstream: How the Synthesizer Conquered American Music

    By David Hajdu  February 14, 2025
    The Hub

    The first issue of Reader’s Digest from 1922 is both shocking and relevant.

    By James Folta  February 7, 2025
    Artificial Intelligence

    What Interacting With Chatbots Can Reveal About Ourselves

    By Webb Keane  February 7, 2025
    Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying
    Artificial Intelligence

    We’re Already at Risk of Ceding Our Humanity to AI

    By Surekha Davies  February 6, 2025
    The Hub

    Libraries are already contending with crappy, AI-generated books.

    By James Folta  February 5, 2025
    Politics

    The Making of an Anti-Woke Zealot: How Elon Musk Was Infected with the MAGA Mind-Virus

    By Eoin Higgins  February 5, 2025
    Video Games

    Cult of the Cowboy: Inside the Toxic Adoration of an All-American Obsession

    Rachel Wagner on Video Games, Violence and the Enduring Allure of the Vigilante Hero

    By Rachel Wagner  February 26, 2025
    Artificial Intelligence

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

    By Deni Ellis Béchard  January 29, 2025
    The Hub

    Which of Tom Hanks’ beloved typewriters are you?

    By Brittany Allen  January 15, 2025
    The Hub

    It sure looks like Meta stole a lot of books to build its AI.

    By James Folta  January 14, 2025
    Class

    My Babies Are Richer Than Yours: On the Lie of the Online Tradwife

    Lauren Carroll Harris Develops a New Theory of the Leisure Class Influencer

    By Lauren Carroll Harris  January 10, 2025
    Social Media

    Even Elon Musk Can’t Bring Down Black Twitter

    By Meredith D. Clark  January 9, 2025
    The Hub

    Fable’s AI-generated end-of-year reading summaries veered into bigotry.

    By James Folta  January 8, 2025
    Best of 2024

    Lit Hub’s 50 Noteworthy Nonfiction Books of 2024

    By Literary Hub  December 24, 2024
    Social Media

    Goodbye to All That, Twitter Edition

    Maris Kreizman Encourages You to Head Over to Bluesky to Make Fun of This Piece

    By Maris Kreizman  December 12, 2024
    The Hub

    UCLA’s new AI-designed literature course has the worst-looking textbook cover I’ve ever seen.

    By James Folta  December 10, 2024
    Reading Habits

    Luigi is Currently Reading:
    What Can We Really Learn About the UHC CEO’s Alleged Killer Based on the Books He’s Read?

    By James Folta  December 10, 2024
    Artificial Intelligence

    Steal This Website: Dear AI Robot-Thief, Please Scrape This Article

    By Calvin Kasulke  December 5, 2024
    Historical Fiction

    Tired of Today’s Tech: Writing Historical Fiction in a Technocratic American Present

    John Brandon on Coming to Terms with Contemporary Settings, How Technology Shapes Plots, and America’s Current Malaise

    By John Brandon  December 4, 2024
    ChatGPT

    On the Report of Poetry’s Death, or: What Does That AI Poetry Study Really Tell Us?

    By Jen Benka  December 3, 2024
    The Hub

    Tech companies, once again, are trying to do publishing.

    By James Folta  November 25, 2024
    Politics

    Cinema May Be Dying, But Shitposting is a Thriving New Artform

    By Alex Rollins Berg  February 3, 2025
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