• Technology

    Photography

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

    Anika Burgess on Daguerreotypes, William Henry Fox Talbot, and Darkroom Dangers

     
    By Anika Burgess  July 17, 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

    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
    Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying
    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

    By Aron Solomon  June 27, 2025
    The Hub

    The definitive ranking of reading technologies.

    By James Folta  July 15, 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

    Janelle Brown on Facts, the 1990s, and Writing Through the Problems of the Internet Age

    By Janelle Brown  June 12, 2025
    The Hub

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

    By Brittany Allen  June 6, 2025
    Aviation

    Inside the First Non-Stop Trans-Atlantic Flight That No One Has Ever Heard Of

    By David Rooney  June 5, 2025
    The Hub

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

    By Brittany Allen  May 30, 2025
    The Hub

    Here are some real book recommendations based on those fake books that AI invented.

    By James Folta  May 28, 2025
    AI

    You See? Generative AI is Bad At Doing My Job

    By Maris Kreizman  May 22, 2025
    Travel

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

    By Brittany Allen  May 16, 2025
    The Hub

    Oh good, Audible is planning to start using AI narrators and translators.

    By James Folta  May 14, 2025
    The Internet Age

    Against Algorithms: Why Tuning Out is an Essential Part of the Creative Process

    Ling Ling Huang on the Importance of Keeping True to Your Own Thoughts

    By Ling Ling Huang  May 14, 2025
    Artificial Intelligence

    On the Very Real Dangers of the Artificial Intelligence Hype Machine

    By Literary Hub  May 13, 2025
    The Hub

    Here are the things that are making us happy this week.

    By Brittany Allen  May 2, 2025
    AI

    Against AI: An Open Letter From Writers to Publishers

    By Literary Hub  June 27, 2025
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