How Addiction Became a Central Motif in Crime Fiction

Scott Aaronson reviews the movie “The AI Doc: Or How I Became An Apocaloptimist”

Nick Cave on Creative Work as an Instrument of Self-Forgiveness and the Courage of Hope in Cynical Times

The Intelligence of Emotions: Philosopher Martha Nussbaum on How Storytelling Rewires Us and Why Befriending Our Neediness Is Essential for Happiness

The Return Of The Moral State

AI got the blame for the Iran school bombing but the truth is more worrying

Justice Kagan's Arguments for "Relax[ing] Our Guard" as to Some Content-Based (But Viewpoint-Neutral) Speech Restrictions

Consumption Tax on the Horizon

Climate change may produce “fast-food” phytoplankton

Today in Supreme Court History: March 31, 1962

Now We Know What the Insects of the Jurassic Period Sounded Like

Penny, a Doberman pinscher, wins the Westminster dog show

What explains the success of Colson Whitehead, Jennifer Egan, and Kazuo Ishiguro? Publishers want literary fiction that looks like genre fiction

Actually, Somali Immigrants Commit More Crime

Are Central Banks Enabling Unsustainable Government Deficits?

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Politicians Want To Ban Gambling Ads To Stop Youth Addiction. What Do the Data Say About Teens and Betting?

Shut out of plum positions because of his political sins, Malcolm Cowley became a triple-threat hired gun: reporting, reviewing, editing

How ‘America First’ Became ‘America Alone’

How Do We Know What We Want: Milan Kundera on the Central Ambivalences of Life and Love

Malcolm Cowley and the Ascent of American Fiction

Why do so many authors and critics remain attached to “literary fiction” in our commercialized landscape of books?