Anthropic is trying to “destructively scan all the books in the world.” How worried should we be?

In a new story collection, the actor and comedian injects a refreshing breeziness into a discourse that can lean toward self-seriousness.

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After winning a state election this past weekend, the German far right is closer to power than it has been in decades.

New reporting from Haaretz shows that, before October 7th, the Israeli Prime Minister was told to expect an “earthquake” from Gaza—and didn’t inform his security chiefs.

The company, which has a hundred and thirty thousand cameras monitoring the streets of the U.S., frames privacy as a worthwhile trade-off for safety and security, echoing the language of the post-9/11 surveillance boom.

In Brian Dillon’s bewitching new book, “Ambivalence: An Education,” the author’s younger self is depicted as an inscrutable, fumbling figure named B.

“My Best Friend’s Divorce,” “33 Going on 50,” and other sequels that shouldn’t be made.

It became immediately evident that this was terrorism on an unexampled scale. The twentieth century had ended, and the twenty-first had begun.

Recommended reading for anyone who wears underwear.

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Joe Swanberg’s first feature in six years, “The Sun Never Sets,” turns a love triangle in Anchorage into a philosophical experiment.

After years of championing modesty and purity, conservatives are embracing a new cause: cleavage.

I told her that I’d been reading an article about morticians. One of the morticians interviewed had said something that was a revelation.

Do you remember those faux-deep conversations you would have in your dorm at 2 A.M.? Here are the middle-age equivalents.

The political operative Adam Jentleson once believed “the way for Democrats to win was to get your base really riled up.” He’s now trying to wrest the Party away from its far-left flank.

The former state senator replaced Graham Platner as Maine’s Democratic nominee. But as he reminded voters over Labor Day weekend, “it could have been anyone else.”

A former friendship on ice.

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“My Brilliant Career” is a fizzy and intelligent pop-feminist interpretation of Miles Franklin’s 1901 Australian novel—and the sleeper hit of the summer, Inkoo Kang writes.