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Steve Toltz’s fourth novel dwells on some hefty subjects - AI, alienation, consciousness - but it all started with a joke.

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While Jhumpa Lahiri was waiting at LaGuardia Airport in New York to receive the St. Louis Literary Award, she read her friend ...

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"A generation of young men who struggle to emulate aspirational standards of appearance are in dire need of the church's affirmation that they are just fine the way they are," writes Jeromiah Taylor.

Franz Kafka's four words from The Trial remain one of literature's most chilling verdicts on power, innocence, and the ...

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New Humans’ at the reopened New Museum misses a crucial distinction underpinning our technological age – that of the bodies ...

Originally published as two separate volumes in 1970 by Simon & Schuster, both works are now housed in a single volume ...

Some sentences do more than begin a story. They shatter something. They rearrange the air in the room, and nothing about how ...