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When Good Becomes Too Good: The Curious Case of AI Poetry
If AI can write poetry that appeals so perfectly to us, is it truly creative—or merely a mirror reflecting our own biases and ...
‘Night Is Not Eternal’ Review: A Trump-Sympathetic Cuban Activist Fights for Democracy in a Doc About Our Differing Definitions of Freedom
The new Nanfu Wang documentary 'Night Is Not Eternal' profiles the Trump-sympathetic Cuban activist Rosa María Payá. Read our ...
Texas Monthly1d
How a Poet Praised for Her Optimism Handles Despair
Acclaimed San Antonio writer Naomi Shihab Nye talks about the “clarifying” power of poetry and why it’s needed in turbulent ...
Roger Ebert1d
All We Imagine As Light
We care about what happens to them. We care about the people they care about, Dr. Manoj, Shiaz. Cinematographer Ranabir Das (who also shot "A Night of Knowing Nothing") shows great sensitivity to the ...
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The art of losing
In Jan Donley’s class at Berklee, her students study literature that centers on loss. Loss can make us sad, but it can also help us heal, Donley writes. In the wake of the 2024 presidential election, ...
New research shows people can’t tell the difference between human and AI poetry – and even prefer the latter. What gives?
AI models can produce poems that rate well on certain ‘metrics’. But the event of reading poetry is not one in which we ...
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Two books delivered beauty, inspiration and humor — just when I needed them most
Sometimes, the right book shows up just at the right time. Our book critic encountered two such books this week: Water, Water ...