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“Block. It puts some writers down for months. It puts some writers down for life.”
Science writer George Musser on the unsung role of friendship in science’s biggest discoveries.
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The researchers rebuked writers, scholars, and public figures for lazily perpetuating the notion of widespread gender bias in academic science.
Want to write a time-travel story? Do so at your own risk.
A new book envisions an encounter of minds between the Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges, the physicist Werner Heisenberg, and the philosopher Immanuel Kant.
A thesaurus isn’t to find big and fancy words, but a resource to help you find your rhythm.
Ignoring the legacy of William Shakespeare is difficult for any writer, let alone one as quintessentially English as "Lord of the Rings" author J.R.R. Tolkien.
When done right, dark humor can help us face inconvenient truths and question stifling social conventions.
Coleman Hughes advocates for a colorblind America, presenting compelling arguments in favor of treating all individuals without regard to race.
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The world’s “most produced living playwright” wins out over other contestants, including Salman Rushdie and Margaret Atwood.
Art criticism is inherently subjective. Still, many critics have tried to make a case for why some of the world’s most celebrated books are in fact terribly written.
Actor, author, and director Jesse Eisenberg demystifies the role of anxiety and self-doubt in leadership.
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Voyage into the lawless world of experimental literature.
The English writer left behind a mind-expanding collection of books.
To reap the benefits of AI technologies, businesses must keep humans in the driving seat.
Soviet censorship was thorough yet fallible.
Many were expecting extremism survivor and free speech advocate Salman Rushdie to take home the Nobel Prize in Literature, but Annie Ernaux beat him to it.
"The Man in the High Castle" may be the most beloved alternate history book, but it is not the most historically accurate.
Jules Verne wrote about gasoline-powered vehicles, weapons of mass destruction, and global warming more than a century ago.
The old linear job model is obsolete. Our post-pandemic work lives are defined by options and flexibility.
Why does time move forward but not backward? Physicist Sabine Hossenfelder explains.
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What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger. That old adage roughly sums up the idea of antifragility, a term coined by the statistician and writer Nassim Taleb. The term refers […]
Six authors, six monumental legacies, and a unique thread connecting them: a solitary novel that shines brightly.
Washington University professor John Inazu tells us how we can make peace inside a raging culture war.
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Step back from the AI maelstrom and explore Lem’s "Summa Technologiae" for a detached look at technology’s role in human evolution.
Using peach and eggplant emojis as shorthand for sex may seem like a new thing, but Renaissance artists were experts at using produce to imply intercourse.
Some classic books, like Mark Twain’s "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn," remain controversial to this day.
Chloé Valdary shares the ancient Stoic principle that can defeat modern despair.
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