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Why Computers Will Never Write Good Novels
The power of narrative flows only from the human brain.
Who Said Nobody Read Isaac Newton?
It’s a myth that legendary works in science aren’t read.
Only Disconnect! A Pandemic Reading of E.M. Forster
The astonishing relevance of the British writer’s story, “The Machine Stops.”
Al Gore Does His Best Ralph Waldo Emerson
The former vice president reads the transcendentalist poet—and reminds us of one.
Meet Harvard’s Own Poet-Physician
Rafael Campo on finding the humanity in medicine and science.
Why Doesn’t Ancient Fiction Talk About Feelings?
Literature’s evolution has reflected and spurred the growing complexity of society.
The Stars Are a Comforting Constant
A poet blends the personal with the cosmic.
Ingenious: Richard Dawkins
The evolutionary biologist reads Robert Frost.
The Book No One Read
Why Stanislaw Lem’s futurism deserves attention.
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