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After allowing Macklemore to be removed from his tour for pro-Palestinian remarks, the pop star took the stage in Philadelphia alone, said he was sorry, and then apologized for…
Commas, dashes, semicolons, and spaces have shaped how we read for centuries. What happens when machines start crafting the sentences?
A new biography argues that the star quarterback’s divorce was his biggest fumble.
“The Maltese Version,” “That Summer’s End,” “Berlin Before and After,” and “Jean Toomer.”
People say they want more children than they’re having. Is modern life stopping them—or have our ideas about a good life changed?
In the novel “Ply,” the Pulitzer Prize winner imagines a ruined New York, a fractured society, and the ultimate structure of existence.
In a sold-out run at Yankee Stadium and an eight-part documentary on HBO, the rapper makes the latest case for his own singularity.
Is an A.I. kill switch possible?
The TV writer-actor on the sandwich generation, finding love onscreen, and growing older with her shows.
The beloved Brooklyn restaurant is back to serve a city in the thrall of Thai spiciness.
“The Ford/Hill Project,” a documentary play, may capture recent events, but it’s a product of the present: activist theatre in a moment when the idea of civic urgency is losing…
As A.I. presses harder on the academic enterprise, we might look to a place where process is its own reward.