June 18, 2025
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Why are we so obsessed with political cartoons?
A brief literary history from Ben Franklin to Ann Telnaes.
What If Instead of Making Paperclips We Asked an AI Super-Intelligence to Make Us All Happy?
Deni Ellis Béchard Considers the Role of Artificial Intelligence in Worlds Fictional and Real
More Than a Muse: Kay Sohini on Discovering Literary New York
From Her Graphic Memoir “This Beautiful, Ridiculous City”
Will Humanity Ever Fully Include the Nonhuman World in Its Moral Circle?
Jeff Sebo on Our Attempts to Measure Intrinsic Value
Humanity’s Claustrophobia: How Technology and Globalization Created a World in Crisis
Robert D. Kaplan Reflects on Globalization’s Shifting Definitions in the Age of Social Media
How an Obscure German Noblewoman Influenced the Way Anne Frank Wrote Her Diary
Biographer Ruth Franklin on the Value of a Careful Eye and Fresh Perspective
André Alexis on Martha Baillie’s There Is No Blue
In Conversation with Michael Kelleher for the Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast
How Literature Predicted and Portrayed the Atom Bomb
Dorian Lynskey on Pierrepoint B. Noyes, H.G. Wells, and the “Superweapons” of Early Science-Fiction
What We Can Learn From a Dog’s Way of Looking At the World
Mark Rowlands on the Value of Appreciating Daily Life's Small Yet Significant Routines
Sex, Love and Longing in 1970s Gay New York: Edmund White on His Past Lovers
“He was a Peter Pan, the puer aeternus. I was abject in my longing for him.”
How Black and White America Reacted to Maya Angelou’s I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Scott W. Stern on the Reception of an American Classic and the Birth of a Renaissance of Black Women Writers
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