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In Emily Ogden’s new book, Poe is not a concocter of hokey ghost stories. He is an excavator of repressed emotion.

In Emily Ogden’s new book, Poe is not a concocter of hokey ghost stories. He is an excavator of repressed emotion.

Is AI really likely to wipe out humanity within the next decade? We used the most scientific tool in existence to get an answer.

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Reflecting on planning, commissioning, editing, and writing film reviews for nearly a decade at a one-of-a-kind arts criticism website.

A better way to buy books online. Every purchase financially supports local independent bookstores.

Fairfield Porter was an insider among the East Coast elite, but his own portraits of life in Southampton and Maine give the charming impression of an outsider looking in.

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Big Tech has gotten them addicted to cheating, and they’ve internalized the blame.

A new history of satire wants to limit the genre to its political ramifications, but satirists are often interested in the whole person and their capacity for vice.

Decades after a brazen art theft drove Merry White’s father to despair, federal agents closed in on one last missing work. For White, the search is personal.

The author knew recognition of her works would take time—and planned accordingly.

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