Machine learning programs have recently made huge advances. Stephen Marche tested one against Shakespeare’s collected works, to see if it could help him figure out which of the several versions of Hamlet’s soliloquy was most likely what the playwright intended.
Andrew Solomon never expected his books to come under threat in America. But as he writes in this essay, attacks on books are on the rise here, and one of his is under investigation by a state legislature.
“Capote’s Women,” by Laurence Leamer, recounts the author’s intimate friendships with some of midcentury America’s most glamorous women — and what happened when he decided to depict them in his fiction.
