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Why South Korean pop culture rocks and North Korea’s does notFrom The Economist: North Korea’s rulers have always had strong views on art. Kim Il Sung, the regime’s founding despot, said artists should...
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Contemporary Literary Novels Are Haunted by the Absence of MoneyFrom The Literary Hub: One of the pleasures of reading 19th-century novels is that authors write openly about money. Take for instance Mr....
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50 Euphemism Examples + Why You Should Use ThemFrom Make a Living Writing: Let’s start with the Dictionary definition of euphemism: A mild or indirect word or expression substituted...
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Encyclopedia Brown: A Story for My Brother, Philip Seymour HoffmanFrom The Paris Review: “What do you do with the old magazines when the new issues come out?” I asked the librarian. “At the end of the...
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The Next Generation of Booksellers Is Changing the (Bookselling) WorldFrom Publishers Weekly: As of May 2023, the American Booksellers Association’s membership included 2,185 companies with 2,599 locations; of...
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Questions over Shakespeare’s authorship began in his lifetime, scholar claimsFrom The Guardian: Scholars often say that no one doubted Shakespeare’s authorship until the 19th century. The response is a rote way of...
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Your first loveYour first love isn’t the first person you give your heart to- it’s the first one who beaks it. Lang Leav, Sad Girls
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Sad girl novels: the dubious branding of women’s emotive fictionFrom The Guardian: What do we mean when we say a novel is a “sad girl novel”? I could list a dozen popular novels published over the last few...
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Publishers are scouring the world of fan fiction to find the next hit author –“There is just a really bright voice that comes from fan fiction.”From Sherwood News: Fan-fiction writers have for decades parlayed their passion for writing stories based on movies, TV shows, and books into...
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“A Theory of America”: Mythmaking With Richard SlotkinFrom Public Books: Over a stunning career, which has lasted more than half a century, the historian Richard Slotkin has devoted himself to...
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I lingered round themI lingered round them, under that benign sky; watched the moths fluttering among the heath, and hare-bells; listened to the soft wind breathing...
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America is uniquely ill-suited to handle a falling populationFrom The Economist: C airo , a town at the southern tip of Illinois founded in the early 19th century, was given that name...
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‘Sociopath’ and ‘Borderline’ Review: Understanding Personality DisordersFrom The Wall Street Journal: ‘I’m a liar. I’m a thief. I’m emotionally shallow. I’m mostly immune to remorse and guilt. I’m highly...
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The Next Generation of Humanoid RobotsA short teaser for the newest Boston Dynamics humanoid robot. PG has blogged about earlier models of Boston Dynamics robots, but, even from...
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If we steal thoughts from the modernsIf we steal thoughts from the moderns, it will be cried down as plagiarism; if from the ancients, it will be cried up as erudition. Charles...
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Manga piracy website operator ordered to pay ¥1.7 billion to publishersFrom The Japan Times: The Tokyo District Court on Thursday ordered the operator of a now-defunct manga piracy website to pay ¥1.7 billion in...
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Microsoft’s upcoming Windows 11 ‘AI Explorer’ updateFrom Windows Central: Microsoft is working on a major new AI feature for Windows 11, which it plans to unveil during an event on May 20....
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What Is an Unreliable Narrator?From Master Class: Authors employ different literary devices to create plot twists and conflicted characters. One of these devices is the...
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Unfair CompetitionFrom The United States Department of Justice, Antitrust Division: The Antitrust Laws The Antitrust Division enforces federal antitrust...
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Inside Amazon’s Secret Operation to Gather Intel on RivalsFrom The Wall Street Journal: For nearly a decade, workers in a warehouse in Seattle’s Denny Triangle neighborhood have shipped boxes of...
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Once while traveling in the CaucasusIn 1909, the year before his death, Leo Tolstoy was visited at his estate, Yasnaya Polyana, by the Count S. Stackelberg. Stackelberg was on a...
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What is the meaning behind Shakespeare’s Sonnet 136?This is a question that Perplexity suggested for itself to answer: What is the meaning behind Shakespeare’s Sonnet 136?...
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A Newly-Discovered Shakespearean SonnetPrompt : Write a Shakespearian Sonnet about a 16-year-old boy named Tom who is very anxious about asking a girl named Susan to a school play,...
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Will copyright law enable or inhibit generative AI?From The World Economic Forum: As artificial intelligence (AI) moves beyond performing simple tasks to creating original content, it blurs...
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Meta ‘discussed buying publisher Simon & Schuster to train AI’From The Guardian: Staff at technology company Meta discussed buying publishing house Simon & Schuster last year in order to procure...
