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By Lora Kelley. The recent slate of content moderation fiction might depict a world that no longer exists.

Joan Silber, the novelist and short-story writer who has been publishing books for more than forty years, once said on the Bookworm podcast that she’s “always interested in freedom.” She is not drawn…

Joan Silber, the novelist and short-story writer who has been publishing books for more than forty years, once said on the Bookworm podcast that she’s “always interested in freedom.” She is not drawn…

“To me, the concept of the master diagnostician is that you’re never good enough,” one doctor said.

February 23, 2026 – “Readers now seem eager to leave behind the book’s ‘litbro’ baggage and to engage with this complicated, pleasurable novel on its own terms.”

Lora Kelley reviews ‘The Copywriter,’ Daniel Poppick’s comic novel that searches for poetry in the workplace.

What makes OpenAI’s chatbot so dangerous? It’s a character without an author.

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September 12, 2025 – “The book tracks the team over the course of seven months, as the boys brawl, lose, win, and physically grow.”

In the summer of 1957 a young woman named Shirley Kubik got a job attending to passengers on Trans World Airlines. After the company determined that she

May 22, 2025 – “Salman Rushdie, who closed out the evening, recounted the cheeky word games they used to play; in one, they replaced the word Love in titles with the words Hysterical Sex, to get to ‘H...

Direct-selling schemes are considered fringe businesses, but their values have bled into the national economy.

As tariffs threaten the cost of synth knobs, wine corks, specialty butters and trading card sleeves, the stuff that makes American life fun may become out of reach.

In promoting Elon Musk’s car company, Donald Trump showed just how far he’ll go for his allies.

The IRS was starting to modernize—then the Trump administration intervened.

The IRS was starting to modernize—then the Trump administration intervened.

The logic of egg prices is getting scrambled.

When tech luminaries talk about their Christian faith, people listen.

The logic of egg prices is getting scrambled.

Musk and other right-wing tech figures have been on a campaign to delegitimize the digital encyclopedia. What happens if they succeed?

A conversation with Derek Thompson on how social isolation is affecting both happiness and civic life

Podcast Episode · Big Take · 12/31/2024 · 16m

Inflation hardly hampered Americans’ love of buying the beverage.

The tech industry’s Trump taboo is quickly becoming a distant memory.

A conversation with Charlie Warzel about the internet’s frantic search for a narrative

The internet is better at telling stories than it is at making sense.

The lore around Massad Boulos, Tiffany Trump’s father-in-law, is that he is a billionaire dealmaker. Records show otherwise.

Donald Trump’s first term was rife with conflicts of interest. This time, it seems, there will be fewer constraints.

TGI Fridays, Denny’s, and other restaurants in the country’s middle tier are struggling.

Its leaders have lots of lofty plans and little power to implement them.

TGI Fridays, Denny’s, and other restaurants in the country’s middle tier are struggling.