Shakespeare’s greatest play? There’s only one contender
Forget Hamlet, Lear or Macbeth – the Bard saved his sharpest psychological insights and finest poetry for Richard II ...
Sylvia Plath’s Cambridge
Emily Cushion recounts stories from Plath's time at Cambridge, reflecting on the pragmatism of her university writing ...
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The Poetry of Bombs and Trenches and Mustard Gas
Sassoon and Owen capture in verse the sheer frightfulness of trench warfare; they are the supreme English war poets of their ...
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The Poetry Fan Who Taught an LLM to Read and Write DNA
By treating DNA as a language, Brian Hie’s “ChatGPT for genomes” could pick up patterns that humans can’t see, accelerating ...
Americans will continue to celebrate Black History Month, whether Washington likes it or ...
It’s not that easy to just do away with Black History Month. Almost 47 million Americans claim African American heritage, ...
Poetry for difficult times
We are not actually here, and it is not 2024. It’s 2020, and we are in Paris," observed Nilanjana S. Roy, flipping through A ...
10 songs to make you fall in love with Leonard Cohen
If you're looking to get into the music of Leonard Cohen, these ten songs are the perfect place to start with his lengthy and influential discography.