Julian Barnes is the author of 13 novels, including the 2011 Booker Prize-winning “The Sense of an Ending.” In 2017 he was ...

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Il Foglio editor Claudio Cerasa believes the chatbot should be treated like a colleague.

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Many AI models were trained on the text of books, but a new test found at least one model has directly memorised nearly the ...

Barry Hill’s new poetry collecion Lamb blends insightful, impatient and powerful commentary with grandfatherly reflections on ...

Spirited (and gossipy) letters and manuscripts at the Morgan Library and Museum puncture myths about the writer’s rise to literary fame.

Figures of speech, like words, evolve. Take “vicious cycle,” for example. For a solid century, there was no “vicious cycle” — ...

Upwards of 150 Hungarian and international publishers are expected to be proudly displaying their latest volumes in the ...

NPR's movie critic and producers discuss how queerness is present across all genres of movies in ways seen and unseen.