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Victoria Amelina: Ukraine and the Meaning of Home
“Hopefully, I will have turned out to be one of the worst investments the Russian Federation ever made.”
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The Hidden Cost of Gasoline
“The whole financial underpinnings of gas stations are starting to crumble.”
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Sliding into the Future: A Reading List on Snowsports
Pointless elitism, or an urgent dress rehearsal for the climate crisis?
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When Drivers Are Attacked, Uber Leaves Police Waiting for Help
“Uber is slow to respond to law enforcement requests, leaving drivers vulnerable to repeated attacks.”
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The Great British Reading List
A reading list on the weird and wonderful culture of Great Britain.
Posted inEssays & Criticism
Poets in the Machine
Why does the literary world still hold online writing at arm’s length?
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The Great Fiction of AI
Can artificial intelligence write novels? Josh Dzieza looks at how independent authors have begun to experiment with AI writing programs like Sudowrite and Jasper to write their stories faster. The piece explores questions around ethics and authorship, and its design is A+. It requires a strange degree of sympathy with the machine, thinking about the […]
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How Barnes & Noble Went From Villain to Hero
For many years, Barnes & Noble was the Walmart of bookstores, crushing independent sellers through economy of scale. Then a new big bad entered the arena. As it turns out, though, neither pandemic nor Bezos could crush B&N — and now, armed with renewed focus, it’s staging one hell of a comeback. (Still shop independent […]
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Bomb the Multiplex: A ‘Barbenheimer’ Reading List
“With people turning a shared release date into a meme-fueled double feature, we rounded up our favorite reads about 2023’s oddest duo.”
