In this episode of Less Worse, Sarah Brouillette, Mitch R. Murray, and Aarthi Vadde discuss how social media platforms have changed literature and publishing.

From the race riots of 1919 to the Black Lives Matter movement, anxieties about Black uprising have influenced literary funding and prestige in the United St... | CUP

Larry McMurtry’s 1985 cowboy epic is finding a new generation of readers online. Its revival raises an awkward question for publishing: What happened to the big, bloody, male-coded literary novel and ...

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

On the plans to hyperscale Alpha School’s “AI” tutoring software to “a billion kids.”

“I began writing this as a record of what it felt like to be a student then, as collective attachments to values—long recognized as fraying, with the knell of the next scapegoat, or horrifying…

Joseph Darda

For Mixtape # 9 we asked a few of our colleagues what recent academic monographs were on our summer reading list. What insights are we taking with us into the new academic year? What should we put …

New hires and comments in interviews show that the AI giant is using its capabilities against dissenters.

Capitalism transforms the quest to control risk into the most reckless gambling—just look to the insurance industry.

In Andrew Brooks’s poetry, someone is always playing music, always reading poetry, there are always snacks (toasted almonds, citrus fruit, a pot of dal or stew simmering). There is dancing and crying....

Like all people not gravely deficient of soul, I teared up a little when I heard Dolly Parton died. I am by nature something of a patch of soft pavement—easily impressed upon —and so there’s not much ...

On the Interpretation of Nightmares

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