• Technology

    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
    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

    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
    On Reading

    In Praise of Print: Why Reading Remains Essential in an Era of Epistemological Collapse

    By Ed Simon  November 25, 2024
    Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying
    The Hub

    I asked ChatGPT to write its own versions of iconic poems, and they are… not great!

    By Jessie Gaynor  November 18, 2024
    Trump Administration

    I read the government graphic novels Elon Musk thinks are a waste of money.

    By Jonny Diamond  November 18, 2024
    AI

    HarperCollins is selling their authors’ work to AI tech.

    By Drew Broussard  November 18, 2024
    Reading Habits

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

    James Folta on the Radically Normal Reading Habits of Luigi Mangione

    By James Folta  December 10, 2024
    American West

    A Golden Land? Questioning Frontiers, Fantasies and Fulfillment in the Pacific Northwest

    By Rachel Greenley  October 28, 2024
    Cars

    The “People’s Car.” How Nazi Germany Created the Volkswagen Beetle

    By Witold Rybczynski  October 8, 2024
    Book Bans

    “Books Are Weapons in the War of Ideas.” The Incendiary Power of Literature in an Era of Censorship

    By Kenneth C. Davis  October 8, 2024
    Video Games

    Mundane Preaching: On the Shortfalls of “Awareness Raising” Video Games

    Marijam Did Considers the Parallels Between Fine Arts and Games When It Comes to Creating Political Products

    By Marijam Did  October 4, 2024
    The Hub

    Attention Austen fans: Now you can have tea with Lizzy Bennet, IRL.

    By Brittany Allen  September 30, 2024
    The Hub

    Looking for what to watch this weekend? Try your favorite authors’ favorite films.

    By Brittany Allen  September 27, 2024
    Robots

    Why Robots Won’t Be Taking Over the World Anytime Soon

    By Nicole Kobie  September 26, 2024
    Book Covers

    Experiments With ChatGPT: Why Artificial Intelligence Can’t Replace Human Creativity

    Linda Huang on the Collaborative Process of Designing the Cover of Vauhini Vara's “Searches”

    By Linda Huang  September 20, 2024
    Publishing

    Posting Truth to Power: In Praise of a Publishing Gossip Site

    By Maris Kreizman  September 12, 2024
    The Hub

    The Internet Archive lost their latest appeal. Here’s what that means for you.

    By Brittany Allen  September 6, 2024
    Travel

    Little Free Library has a new map to help places hit hardest by book bans.

    By James Folta  September 5, 2024
    Mothers and Sons

    Nothing’s Ever Lost: Can AI Help Us Remember Our Departed Loved Ones?

    Bryan VanDyke on Grief, Chatbots and the Power of Human Memory

    By Bryan VanDyke  September 4, 2024
    The Hub

    NaNoWriMo defends writing with AI and pisses off the whole internet.

    By James Folta  September 3, 2024
    The West

    What Red Dead Redemption II Reveals About Our Myths of the American West

    By Tore C. Olsson  August 28, 2024
    The Hub

    Six newsletters to get you through this week.

    By Brittany Allen  November 11, 2024
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