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D. Graham Burnett discusses the politics of attention in our algorithmic age.

Isaac Butler's new book mixes history and personal testimony to examine the 'culture wars' that shaped the 1980s-conflicts that differed in striking ways from the ones we're witnessing today.

The burgeoning field of fiction character biographies.

Exploring the links between the history of semiotics and the creation of LLMs.

What the internet learned from television.

An incisive and moving new critical biography of one of the nuclear age's greatest visionaries.

Beverly Gage takes a road trip through historic sites from 1776 to today, discovering optimism for our political future along the way.

Literary credibility in the age of AI.

How employees in the tech sector see the world, themselves, and the (im)possibility of change.

For the Legacies of Eugenics series, Daniel Shanahan shows how algorithmically mediated music recommendations have a dark backstory.