Mick Cochrane launches his new poetry collection and BABEL goes to the movies as two films based on Sigrid Nunez novels screen at Hallwalls. Tuesday, Oct. 6, 6 p.m.: BABEL at the Movies: The Friend Join Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center and Just Buffalo Literary at Hallwalls Cinema, 341 Delaware Ave Tuesday for a free screening of The Friend in advance of Sigrid Nunez’s BABEL visit on Wednesday, October 15.

In a series of private meetings, the company consulted religious scholars to help instill morality into its A.I. models — and make the case that Claude could be conscious.

If we want to figure out the proper way to control A.I. models, we need to recognize what they really are.

While the focus has been on AI agents’ hacking capabilities, a recently patched vulnerability in a ChatGPT app shows that AI software is itself an inviting—and vulnerable—target.

Misleading anecdotes, flawed data, and oversimplified analyses are at the heart of a narrative of Jewish exclusion promoted by the free expression…

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A former Cornell University student alleges she was gang raped at a fraternity in 2024. Soon after, she received a text apology from one of the fraternity brothers.

U.S. employers added a disappointing 29,000 jobs and the unemployment rate ticked up last month, the government reported Friday, a month before voters go to the polls in pivotal midterm elections at a time of discontent over the high cost of living and the state of the economy.

“I write to find out what I think about something.”

The launch of Peach Mag co-founder Matthew Bookin’s second story collection New Dark will be part of Shabby Doll House Press Tour stop this Friday night at Actual Books in Kenmore. Wednesday, Sept. 30, 7 p.m.: Evening House Books presents readings by poets Axel B. Kolcow, Jazz De Nero, and Edie Roberts. 523 Main St, Buffalo, NY 14203. Free and open to the public.

Toward the end of his biography of Roy Cohn, written with his wife, Susan Goldmark, Kai Bird quotes the editor and publisher Jason Epstein: “In a way,

Almost fifty years after the Czechoslovak human rights initiative Charter 77 was first reported in the Review’s pages, Václav Havel’s own long-lost account of his imprisonment now appears in English f...

A Table for Fortune is about September 11th. As it grew, tracing the roots of that crime in one direction and its poisoned harvest in another, the book bifurcated. The first part is, or means to be…

In a wide-ranging interview, the New York congresswoman offered her most detailed insight yet into how she is thinking about a possible presidential run.

Heating oil prices have shot up along with diesel prices.

Read "How to Sacrifice" by Mick Cochrane - part of the Poem of the Week series, curated by literary legacy awardee R.D. Pohl.

PEN America today announced the selection of award-winning novelist, essayist, and professor Phil Klay to serve as its president and chair of the Board of Trustees of the 104-year-old writers organiza...

Annie Dillard, the masterful stylist and brilliant thinker, has died at 81. Her death was confirmed by her literary executor, Maggie Nelson. Dillard, who wrote in many forms and experiments, was an…

The ruling blocks the Trump administration from dramatically changing how Americans vote by mail in the midterm elections.

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The ruling deferred to Missouri’s state Supreme Court, which had invalidated G.O.P.-friendly district lines, saying voters must first have an opportunity to approve the map in a statewide referendum.

The Trump envoy’s income surged in 2025, lifted by gains from World Liberty Financial.

Large-language models (LLMs) are rapidly becoming part of human culture, reshaping how information is produced, transmitted, and used. Here we propose that their diffusion can be understood through a ...

Anthropic is trying to “destructively scan all the books in the world.” How worried should we be?

Read an excerpt from "HOLLY" by grace (ge) gilbert - part of the Poem of the Week series, curated by literary legacy awardee R.D. Pohl.

How senior leaders of the armed forces dodge accountability.

A story of recovery, love, and loss—a memoir of healing ourselves and the natural world.

Marlon James’s new novel follows a group of gay men who seek love, connection, and restitution after a bloody homophobic attack.

A Kentucky farmer, he railed against agribusiness and championed small family farms and the environment, winning widespread acclaim.

Read an excerpt from "Homeric Epic" by Kazim Ali - part of the Poem of the Week series, curated by literary legacy awardee R.D. Pohl.

Erie County and Buffalo Convention Center officials canceled a DHS career expo over planned ICE recruitment, protest risks and public safety concerns, drawing criticism from a Republican county lawmaker.