• Technology

    The Hub

    More than a third of translators think they’ve already lost work to AI.

    By James Folta  April 25, 2024
    The Hub

    Meta considered buying Simon & Schuster to build its AI.

    By James Folta  April 8, 2024
    Trains

    How a Train is Like a Novel: On the Phenomenon of Illusory Self-Motion

    By John Holten  March 25, 2024
    Robots

    A.I. Chatbot, Will You Be My Friend? Seven Stories of Robot-Human Relationships

    By Sierra Greer  March 22, 2024
    Work-Life Balance

    Work-Life Imbalance: How the Pandemic Ruined Our Understanding of “Free” Time

    By Gary S. Cross  February 19, 2024
    Performance Art

    The Artist is Banned for Violating Community Guidelines: On Belle Delphine, Marina Abramovic, and Womanhood-As-Performance

    By Rafael Frumkin  February 16, 2024
    The Internet Age

    How Corporations Tried—And Failed—To Control the Spread of Content Online

    By David Bellos and Alexandre Montagu  February 8, 2024
    Publishing

    Against Disruption: On the Bulletpointization of Books

    By Maris Kreizman  February 1, 2024
    Immigration

    How Big Data and the Surveillance State Collude to Undermine Immigrant Rights

    By César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández  February 1, 2024
    Social Media

    Rebecca Solnit: How to Comment on Social Media

    By Rebecca Solnit  January 31, 2024
    Gig Economy

    The Cult of the Hustle: Why We All Want to Become Our Own Boss

    By Benjamin C. Waterhouse  January 22, 2024
    Entertainment

    Theater of the Mind: How Radio Brought the World Into American Homes

    By Paul J. Nahin  January 17, 2024
    Science fiction

    How a 20th-Century Czech Play Influences Our Understanding of Science and Humanity

    By Jitka Čejková  January 16, 2024
    Biggest Literary Stories

    The 10 Biggest Literary Stories of the Year

    By Literary Hub  December 23, 2023
    Biggest Literary Stories

    The Biggest Literary Stories of the Year: 30 to 11

    By Emily Temple  December 19, 2023
    Biggest Literary Stories

    The Biggest Literary Stories of the Year: 50 to 31

    By Emily Temple  December 15, 2023
    Artificial Intelligence

    Why Novelists Should Embrace Artificial Intelligence

    By Debbie Urbanski  December 8, 2023
    On Technology

    Unlocking Digital Doors: On the Hacker Group That Told Congress They Could Take Down the Internet

    By Walter J. Scheirer  December 7, 2023
    Sci-Fi

    Space Pastoral: Finding a New Literary Genre in the Slow Death of the International Space Station

    By Samantha Harvey  December 5, 2023
    Aging

    On Learning to Ride a Motorcycle After Fifty

    By Kim McLarin  November 17, 2023
    Physics

    Magnets, How Do They Work? On the Magic of Magnetic Force

    By Roma Agrawal  November 16, 2023
    Shakespeare's First Folio

    In Praise of the Tangible Sacredness of the Printed Word

    By Ed Simon  November 13, 2023
    Space!

    What To Do When Your Period Comes… In Space

    By Kelly Weinersmith and Zach Weinersmith  November 8, 2023
    Geology

    Magical and Essential: On the Mineral and Metallic Bases of Our World

    By Ed Conway  November 8, 2023
    Photography

    Capturing Process and Industry in America: On the Photography of Christopher Payne

    By Kathy Ryan  November 3, 2023
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