French art historian Thomas Schlesser is still adapting to life as a best-selling global author having written one of the ...

It started with a meme, back in 2019: a collage calling out trans people who wrote some pretty nasty tweets at Rowling for ...

Editor’s note: This work is part of AI Watchdog, The Atlantic’s ongoing investigation into the generative-AI industry. On Tuesday, researchers at Stanford and Yale revealed something that AI companies ...

It’s a complaint many algebra teachers are familiar with, as more letters and symbols are introduced with progressively harder courses in mathematics. But why did the plus symbol emerge as the ...

This year’s Guadalajara International Book Fair (FIL), which runs in the western Mexican city from Saturday, November 29, to Sunday, December 7, promises some 3,000 events and activities, the presence ...

For something that happens mostly alone and in silence, reading can be surprisingly intimate. Our favorite books reveal our interests, inspire the way we think, and offer storylines and fantasies we ...

Language is one of the few faculties that still seems to be uniquely human. Other animals, like chimpanzees and songbirds, have developed elaborate communication systems, but none appears to convey ...

BEYOND LANGUAGE by Dmitri A. Borgmann. 338 pages. Scr/bner’s. $7.50. This is a book for the tired scientist, mathematician or logician. But the word games that Dmitri Borgmann has collected for his ...

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"Algospeak" by Albany native Adam Aleksic. Before he was breaking down internet language for millions of TikTok users, Adam Aleksic was just a kid growing up in Albany, fascinated by words and their ...

In a major court victory for artificial intelligence companies on Tuesday, a California federal judge sided with Anthropic, the parent company of the Claude AI chatbot, ruling copyrighted books can be ...