AI is the printing press reborn
AI is an impossible problem if you think of writing as the end.
24 November 2023, 03:51 AM
Our 'entangled freedoms'
The curtailment of free speech and writing is especially distressing for the liberal classes in the US, given the values enshrined in the First Amendment with its guarantee of freedom of expression and the press.
8 June 2023, 01:00 AM
Our brains react differently to digital and printed text. What does this mean for readers?
We generally use the same parts of the brain no matter the medium, with one crucial exception. And therein lies the rub.
26 April 2023, 11:00 AM
Muting Shakespeare: Watching Richard III in Shakespeare in the Park
Shakespeare in the Park is a New York institution.
19 August 2022, 18:00 PM
What Does It Mean to Write in an Everyday Life?
There is a paradox to literacy in our contemporary societies.
5 March 2021, 18:00 PM
A Burning: Good Books Are Hard to Read
Good books – even as they are arresting – are often hard to read. This is not because they are difficult in themselves so much because oftheir content.
14 August 2020, 18:00 PM
Is the Man Who is Tall Happy?
Is the Man Who is Tall Happy is pretty to look at. It is an animated documentary laying out a meandering conversation between two men (as of now, also free to stream on Youtube). We would call it an adda. The first is the interviewer himself, Michael Gondry, a
28 June 2019, 18:00 PM
Metaphors of Writ-ing and How We Ac-tually Write
What is a metaphor? How does it help people learn to write? What good is it to even to ask such questions? Though Bangladeshi culture values literature greatly and so recognizes its value in poetry we do not think much about metaphors beyond aesthetics. People overlook the power
24 May 2019, 18:00 PM