A revealing portrait of novelist Thomas Hardy as a womanizer
In “Hardy Women,” biographer Paula Byrne explores how women — many of them — influenced the author of “Jude the Obscure” and ...
Joan Didion and Eve Babitz, celebrity writers whose friendship soured
Lili Anolik’s “Didion & Babitz” is a sparkling and ardent look at the conflicting sensibilities of two iconic Californians ...
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 ...