Thought Experimenter

Will AI really make our world better?

The Heart and the Chip: Our Bright Future with Robots by Daniela Rus and Gregory Mone

Sing, Muse

Exploding the Canon, Episode 1

My Name Is Emily

What we call ourselves—and what
others call us—can be both a burden and a gift

See It, Say It

“Said Hanrahan” by John O’Brien

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Hope Gangloff

Branching out

Lunching With Rabi

An afternoon spent in the company of an illustrious physicist

Invisible Ink

Giving center page to an era’s forgotten writers

Shakespeare’s Sisters: How Women Wrote the Renaissance by Ramie Targoff

My Peony

“My Possessions” by Charles Simic

Poems read aloud, beautifully

“Muse Circe Reclaims Her Lucre”

Five new prompts

In the Endless Arctic Light

A journey to the far north of Norway means confronting our changing climate

The Bears

“Faustina, or, Rock Roses” by Elizabeth Bishop

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Family/History

David Levering Lewis digs into his own origin story

In the Lions’ Studio

A new dual biography turns the lens on the towering architects of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Louis B. Mayer and Irving Thalberg: The Whole Equationby Kenneth Turan

Such People

“My Mother on an Evening in Late Summer” by Mark Strand

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Kyung Kim

Far over the misty mountains

The Fair Fields

Only rarely did the outside world intrude on an idyllic Connecticut childhood, but in the tumultuous 1960s, that intrusion included an encounter with evil

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