Tag: Writing and Writers
A.I. Is Mastering Language. Should We Trust What It Says?
But as GPT-3’s fluency has dazzled many observers, the large-language-model approach has also attracted significant criticism over the…
Will Substack Go Beyond Newsletters? A Company Weighs Its Future.
There are things that the newsletter writer Kirsten Han misses about Substack. They just aren’t enough to outweigh…
Who Is MacKenzie Scott?
But as Ms. Scott’s fame for giving away money has grown, so, too, has the deluge of appeals…
How Emily Nunn Turned Salad Into a Soapbox
ATLANTA — Emily Nunn won’t drive on the freeways here, so it can take 45 minutes to get…
For a Ukrainian Poet, Putin’s War Is All Too Familiar
LVIV, Ukraine — At 83, no longer a young poet, Ihor Kalynets knows something of life under Russia’s…
Samuel L. Jackson and Walter Mosley Team Up for a Sci-Fi Fable
Samuel L. Jackson made his name in the movies, Walter Mosley in literature. But when it was time…
They Are Fans of ‘Euphoria,’ but Not of Its Creator, Sam Levinson
When the finale of the second season of “Euphoria” aired Sunday evening on HBO, the social media conversation…
How Jonathan Larson Taught Me to Become a Better Critic
I watched “Tick, Tick … Boom!,” Netflix’s film adaptation of the Jonathan Larson musical, four and a half…
Black Authors Shake Up Brazil’s Literary Scene
RIO DE JANEIRO — Itamar Vieira Júnior, whose day job working for the Brazilian government on land reform…
An 8-Year-Old Wrote a Book and Hid It on a Library Shelf. It’s a Hit.
For example, in “Chaptr 1,” Dillon writes, “ONe Day in wintr it wus Crismis!”In his “Crismis” tale, Dillon,…