There is a framed illustration on the wall of my 6-year-old daughter’s room, depicting a colorful assembly of wild creatures, all inhabitants of the Amazon rainforest. She loves this artwork,...
Read moreThere is, it seems, an unwritten law in the world of artificial intelligence, which I will attempt to distil here: “Any discussion of AI must include an early and robust...
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Welcome to this week in comic book reviews! The staff have come together to read and review nearly everything that released today. It isn't totally comprehensive, but it includes just...
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Some years ago I spoke at a conservative church in northern Michigan. I talked about military-style guns and the culture of fear and resentment that rationalized the zeal for them....
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NIGHT FLYER: Harriet Tubman and the Faith Dreams of a Free People, by Tiya MilesHarriet Tubman led such an eventful life — so filled with hardship, extreme peril and close...
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SO WHAT: Poems, by Frederick SeidelFrederick Seidel’s best poems balance on a razor’s edge between diagnosing what’s wrong and being in the wrong. Like his previous 18 volumes, “So What”...
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“The Singularity Is Nearer” follows Kurzweil’s 2005 “The Singularity Is Near,” and several other heraldic works of tech futurism that have become sacred texts to the current generation of A.I....
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Book Review: Why People Collect Trees and You Should, TooA new book about tree collectors shows how arboreal curation is an outlet for art and activismBy Kathleen Yale NONFICTIONThe Tree...
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Australian writer Bri Lee is well known for her extensive analysis of society and culture in her non-fictional works, but it seems she has thrown all that research into her...
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