Wednesday, February 7, 2024 - 5:00am
By Jennifer Szalai
“Literary Theory for Robots,” by Dennis Yi Tenen, a software engineer turned literature professor, shows how the “intelligence” in artificial intelligence is irreducibly human.
Wednesday, February 7, 2024 - 5:00am
By Stephen Buoro
Like many Nigerians, the novelist Stephen Buoro has been deeply influenced by the exquisite bedlam of Lagos, a megacity of extremes. Here, he defines the books that make sense of the chaos.
Wednesday, February 7, 2024 - 5:00am
By Elisa Gabbert
The poems in Mary Jo Bang’s latest collection, “A Film in Which I Play Everyone,” are full of pleasure, color, sound and light — but also torment.
Tuesday, February 6, 2024 - 5:58pm
By Emma Madden
The title of Taylor Swift’s next album, “The Tortured Poets Department,” spurred strong responses from a typically quiet bunch.
Tuesday, February 6, 2024 - 10:51am
By Samuel Rutter
“Praiseworthy,” Alexis Wright’s bracing satire of clashing worldviews in Australia, more than lives up to its name.
Tuesday, February 6, 2024 - 5:01am
By Matthew F. Delmont
“John Lewis” and “Medgar and Myrlie” tell the stories of activists who struggled with when to push and when to compromise and build coalitions.
Tuesday, February 6, 2024 - 5:01am
By Virginia Heffernan
In “The Secret History of Bigfoot,” John O’Connor explores a legend that refuses to die — and his own place in a disenchanted world.
Tuesday, February 6, 2024 - 5:01am
By Daisy Lafarge
In Margot Livesey’s new novel, “The Road From Belhaven,” a 19th-century farm girl’s life and maturity are complicated by her uncontrollable visions of accident and disaster.
Tuesday, February 6, 2024 - 5:01am
By Ivy Pochoda
In Francis Spufford’s new novel, “Cahokia Jazz,” a detective must solve the mystery of a staged killing before its repercussions destroy his city’s social and political order.
Monday, February 5, 2024 - 1:31pm
Fanon, who died in 1961, wrote about the politics and psychology of colonialism. In The Rebel's Clinic, Adam Shatz captures the thorny brilliance of a man whose radicalism is still shaping our world.