Poet, translator and classicist Anne Carson wins Nobel Prize in literature
Anne Carson, the Canadian poet, essayist, professor of classics and translator, has won the 2026 Nobel Prize in…
Annie Dillard brought poetry into prose
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John Gruber Calls Claude’s AI Watermarking ‘Patently Offensive’
Tech blogger John Gruber is joining the chorus of dissent over Anthropic’s plan to watermark Claude’s writing. On…
I Built an Agent to Do My Job. Then It Hung up on My Boss.
Rather than wait to find out if AI will replace me, I built my replacement. Big Tech execs…
Andrej Karpathy Says There’s a ‘Growing Gap’ Among AI Users
The AI superusers and dismissers may be drifting further apart. Loading audio narration… Andrej Karpathy might as well…
Writing In Retirement: Could I Afford It?
I have to read the acceptance letter from GrubStreet’s Online Novel Incubator program twice to believe it. Dear…
How Emerald Fennell pushed ‘Wuthering Heights’ to the ‘squeaking point’
Emerald Fennell’s adaptation of “Wuthering Heights” could only have been created by a true fan. The British filmmaker…
6 writers remember Joan Didion, L.A.’s literary prophet who ‘remains full of surprise’
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Dear Doctor: Intermittent fasting may help with weight loss in some people, but there are risks
DEAR DR. ROACH: I am a 50-year-old overweight woman (5 feet, 6 inches tall at 240 pounds). So…
Detecting AI Text On Your Laptop? It’s Possible
One of the things that AI doesn’t have that humans have in abundance is fingerprints. Researchers at Northeastern…
How publishing my first book taught me that the true payoff of pursuing dreams is about more than profit
MAKING MY DREAM REALITY When I returned to Singapore in mid-2024, I’d finished most of my manuscript. It…
‘littleboy/littleman’ review: An immigrant story as freestyle jazz
An immigrant drama by Rudi Goblen about two brothers born in Nicaragua, “littleboy/littleman,” now receiving its world premiere…