If only they were robotic! Instead, chatbots have developed a distinctive — and grating — voice. Credit...Illustration by Giacomo Gambineri Supported by By Sam Kriss In the quiet hum of our digital ...

Journal Editorial Report: Will 50-year mortgages and $2,000 tariff rebates ease voters’ cost of living concerns? President Trump recently mused that instead of increasing federal spending by $440 ...

Across Asia, a new storytelling phenomenon has reshaped the way audiences watch and connect. The short-form drama model, which is comprised of ultra-short, serialized dramas designed for vertical ...

A new box set, which includes the fabled Electric Nebraska sessions, tells the complete story of one of the most foundational and lonesome records in rock music. Save this story Save this story Bruce ...

Un Samedi en Décembre captured Randy playing a career-spanning selection of his songs, mostly solo on piano. He was accompanied on a few tunes by a string section. Among the songs he performed were ...

Readers on TikTok and Instagram are making the aesthetics of reading more visible than ever with creative, and often intricate, annotations. Called marginalia, these markups can be elaborate, with ...

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Source: Stable Diffusion, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons I love teaching writing. It's my favorite job ever. Part of the reason it's fun is that I get to teach something I'm passionate about. But that's ...

One of the highlights of my first three years as a literature professor at MIT—and indeed, of my 15-year career as an educator—has been the recent discovery that some of my students, past and present, ...

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For accessibility, Android will soon let you enable a dark theme in apps that don’t have one. A new “Expanded” dark mode option forces apps to go dark, but it may cause visual issues. This feature is ...