“Literary Theory for Robots,” by Dennis Yi Tenen, a software engineer turned literature professor, shows how the “intelligence” in artificial…
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“Gutenberg! The Musical!,” a comic meta-musical about two talentless dolts pitching a show about the father of the printing press,…
It’s been 40 years since Martin Luther King’s Birthday became a national holiday, and the question of how to celebrate…
He questioned the findings of the Warren Commission, called Edward Snowden a prized Russian asset and exposed the diamond industry’s…
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Fifty years ago this week, “How to Be Your Own Best Friend” nipped at the heels of “The Joy of…
Yaroslav Trofimov grew up in Kyiv. “Our Enemies Will Vanish” records his experience as a journalist for The Wall Street…
As executive editor from 1994 to 2001, he oversaw a period of growth, expanding national and international readerships, creating new…
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