For as long as I can remember, I have composed poems from the bits of language revolving in my head when no more pressing thoughts intrude. While out for a walk or running an errand, a phrase or stanza might start up and repeat...
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Fiction almost always gets Artificial Intelligence wrong. The AI narratives are generally Frankenstein (“It’s gone rogue!” e.g. Skynet) or Pinocchio (“I just want to be a real boy!” e.g. Commander Data), both of which are a little banal, and neither of which have much...
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Durga Chew Bose's essay collection Too Much and Not the Mood "bristles with slow and tender inquisitiveness, carefully wrought anecdotes and character studies, devotion to detail, and nuanced structure in which form engages with content" (Los Angeles Review of Books). Durga recently...
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Jace Clayton's book, Uproot, travels across the present musical landscape: from the prevalence of Auto-Tune in Moroccan Berber music to the slow archiving of traditional music on soon-obsolete computers. For the launch of the book, Clayton sat down with the Met's social media...
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"A crazed fantasia on Tolstoy's tale, with all the moralizing ingeniously whited out." —Joshua Cohen, Harper's Garin, a district doctor, is desperately trying to reach the village of Dolgoye, where a mysterious epidemic is turning people into zombies—but a trip that should last no more...
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Subscribe to Work in Progress and download a complimentary ebook edition of Jeff VanderMeer's Annihilation. Work in Progress is a compendium of original works, exclusive excerpts, and interviews with authors from Farrar, Straus and Giroux. First printed in 1992 as a newsletter, these are the...
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Subscribe to Work in Progress and download a complimentary ebook edition of Jeff VanderMeer's Annihilation. Work in Progress is a compendium of original works, exclusive excerpts, and interviews with authors from Farrar, Straus and Giroux. First printed in 1992 as a newsletter, these are the...