Tag: Literature

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‘Odyssey’ translator Emily Wilson offers a new essay collection

Michael Lucchese · October 25, 2026 6:42 am

Walker Percy in Covington, Louisiana, in 1977. (AP Photo)

Revisiting Walker Percy’s ‘The Last Gentleman’ at 60

Clare Coffey · October 17, 2026 7:59 am

iPhone 13 showing its screen with Netflix application.

Community and Family

Netflix’s ‘East of Eden’ understands what made John Steinbeck’s masterpiece great

Harry Khachatrian · October 12, 2026 12:07 pm

Cormac McCarthy attends the premiere of The Road in 2009 in New York. (Evan Agostiniap)

A new biography revisits ‘No Country for Old Men’ author Cormac McCarthy

Nicholas Clairmont · October 11, 2026 7:06 am

AI writing

The write stuff

Dominic Green · October 3, 2026 5:15 am

British writer J.R.R. Tolkien enjoying a pipe in his study at Merton College, Oxford. (Haywood Magee/Picture Post/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Tolkien receives England’s supreme literary accolade

Dan Hannan · September 25, 2026 7:10 am

Digital background of LED-lit shape of a human face with the words "AI Agent" inside the head, depicting innovative technologies in AI systems, neural interfaces and internet machine learning technologies with colorful interconnected wires.

AI is out of data. Now it’s burning books

Eric Wargotz · September 11, 2026 11:00 am

Author Wendell Berry talks with a reporter at his home in Port Royal, Ky., March 10, 2011. (Ed Reinke,/AP)

Wendell Berry, 1934-2026

Daniel Ross Goodman · September 11, 2026 5:05 am

Mars Cowboys

Mars will need cowboys, not committees

Michael Breeden · August 30, 2026 8:00 am

AI romance

AI isn’t making art. It’s selling us fake intimacy

Andrew Moore · August 30, 2026 8:00 am

Anthony Bourdain attends "On The Chopping Block: A Roast of Anthony Bourdain" in New York

Community and Family

Tony gives Anthony Bourdain something worth writing about

Harry Khachatrian · August 18, 2026 6:00 am

The Chautauqua Institute

Reclaiming the middle: Chautauqua’s slow push toward balance

Salena Zito · August 4, 2026 3:56 pm