Chatbots learned from human writing. Now it’s their turn to influence us.

Despite what tech CEOs might say, large language models are not smart in any recognizably human sense of the word.

A new novel from the prolific translator Jennifer Croft challenges the dominance of the language.

After I finished college, Leslie Jamison’s The Empathy Exams won my allegiance immediately and forever.

Before playing The Last of Us, I had never thought that a video game could be a work of art.

The success of the author's Neapolitan novels—and the mystery surrounding their author—have shone an unexpected spotlight on Ann Goldstein, the New Yorker editor who's translated them into English.

A controversial new book about Facebook serves as a field guide for the DOGE era.

The now-famous white paper has proved to be a good road map for what the administration has done so far, and what may yet be on the way.

Melissa Febos’s new book, The Dry Season, recounts a year of celibacy and the freedom it gave her to reconnect with the world.

When malaise strikes, a book can break the spell—if you choose the right one.