A suspicion of prose poetry permeated Anglophone countries in the 20th century. Today, it is rejuvenating poetic traditions. Read more ›
Horror, the literary genre, is booming and there are plenty of frightening fresh offerings from specialist and mainstream publishers alike. But where to start? We've put together an overview of the five horror novels shortlisted at the 2026 Bram Stoker Awards, including new books by fan favourites Stephen Graham Jones and Silvia Morena-Garcia. This interview appeared first on . Read more ›
Contrasting Synchronicity and Serendipity: Meaningful Connections vs. Fortunate Discoveries Synchronicity describes meaningful coincidences that lack a clear causal link and seem personally significant. These moments seem to align our thoughts or emotions, creating a connection between our internal world and an external event. Imagine a person in therapy discovering that their therapist is reading the same book they are reading and is almost on the same page. The two events are falling togeth... Read more ›
Automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems, despite low overall word error rates, produce residual lexical errors that disproportionately affect semantically critical tokens such as named entities, negations, and sentiment-bearing words. These errors are often structured, arising from phonetic similarity rather than random noise, making naive token-level correction insufficient. We propose a structured ASR correction framework, that we call G-SP... Read more ›
Imagine a portal you can pass through at will. On the other side, there’s a world that resembles this one in many superficial ways, but there’s an uncanny distortion to it. The rules of physical space have been suspended. It’s populated by corrupted facsimiles of people, their humanity doubtful. The longer you spend here, the more you, too, will be corrupted. And though there’s a pervasive feeling of unreality, the harms you undergo will be very, very real. Read more ›
Free epub ebook download of the Standard Ebooks edition of Short Fiction: A collection of science fiction stories by Harry Harrison, ordered by date of publication. Read more ›
Missed the earlier installments? Here's Vol. 1 and here's Vol. 2. Years ago, more than a decade now, I edited a series of personal essays for a magazine called Pacific Standard. This was toward the tail end of the personal essay renaissance, those years when first-person writing Read more ›
The newest release from SpriteWrench, Duppy Detective Tashia, leans hard into Caribbean culture and folklore. Read more ›
Data science has evolved dramatically over the last decade. Businesses once relied on static reports and historical data analysis to guide… Read more ›
“Scientific American” showcases the history and future of America’s scientific engine, highlighting promising young scientists and icons at MIT and beyond. Read more ›
To examine the increasing similarities between television storytelling and literary fiction—particularly their shared emphasis on complex characters and challenging themes—I recently spoke with Rasheed Newson, television writer (Narcos, The Chi), showrunner (Bel-Air), and novelist (There’s Only One Sin in Hollywood and My Government Means to Kill Read more ›
Five stories that make Aldous Huxley's 1932 novel feel like nonfiction. Read more ›
AI tools have made it almost trivial to generate a small web artifact. Read more ›
The studio is adapting a disturbing story from Reddit for a movie starring Lily James. Read more ›
a free verse poem Remington “Remy” Cornelius snuggled up next to Jernee’s pillow in what is now… his favorite chair. Photo Credit: Tremaine L. Loadholt hawk’s eyes on … Read more ›
Etymology map for the word “name” in European languages Read more ›
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The first Englishman to reach the New World brought home chips and fags. Or so we were told: many of us will remember primary-school lessons on Sir Walter Raleigh, fresh from Virginia, presenting Elizabeth I with potatoes and tobacco. In particularly colorful versions, his servants chuck the tubers and cook the poisonous leaves, or a gardener burns the plants only to discover edible potatoes. While these accounts may be little more than Victorian folklore — conquistadors probably brought thes... Read more ›
Dot Porter, SIMS Curator of Digital Humanities, presents a Video Orientation to University of Pennsylvania Library’s LJS 483 – Questions on Aristotle’s Physics. A Commentary on Aristotle’s Physics in the form of questions and answers following the content of the 8 books of the Physics. Each question begins with a U/V standing for the Latin […] Read more ›