Big data literary critic Franco Moretti wants to study bad books, preferably without reading them
Yes, it's important for writers to be community-oriented. But we also need structures that support paying people
Wednesday, Apr 23, 2014 5:04 PM UTC 0Her folksy but candid memoir explains why she won't run, in oh so many ways -- plus other political revelations
Wednesday, Apr 23, 2014 4:24 PM UTC 0From the Organization Man to open-plan design, a new history of the way the office has shaped the modern world
Sunday, Apr 20, 2014 10:00 PM UTC 0Twelve years ago, Jason Padgett had never made it past pre-algebra. And then a violent mugging changed everything
Sunday, Apr 20, 2014 7:00 PM UTC 0Contrary to what the bestselling author would tell you, obsessive practice isn't the key to success. Here's why
Sunday, Apr 20, 2014 3:30 PM UTC 0One of our great writers on her Twitter obsession, the quirks she fights in her own writing -- and cannibalism
Sunday, Apr 20, 2014 3:00 PM UTC 0Reza Aslan on why he loves being on Glenn Beck's "chalkboard of crazy," and why Jesus would raise the minimum wage
Sunday, Apr 20, 2014 10:59 AM UTC 0The evolution theorist couldn't have known that people like Hitler would exploit his ideas in such horrifying ways
Saturday, Apr 19, 2014 6:00 PM UTC 0Richard Dawkins and the new atheists suggest human consciousness can be cloned in a lab. But they can't prove it
Saturday, Apr 19, 2014 3:00 PM UTC 0The truth about ruinous austerity plans and worry about the debt -- it's all about aiding the affluent bond holders
Saturday, Apr 19, 2014 1:30 PM UTC 0For Generation Y, music is just what you listen to. For Xers, it defines who we are
Friday, Apr 18, 2014 11:00 PM UTC 0OK, we were raised on uncool music (Barenaked Ladies, Britney, Smash Mouth). But then technology changed everything
Friday, Apr 18, 2014 10:59 PM UTC 0Long before "One Hundred Years of Solitude," the novelist found myth and magic reporting on the Colombian coast
Friday, Apr 18, 2014 5:21 PM UTC 0The Nobel laureate was among the most influential Spanish-language authors of all time
Thursday, Apr 17, 2014 8:17 PM UTC 0You gotta eat, even if you're a fictional character: An artist cooks and photographs dishes from her favorite books
Thursday, Apr 17, 2014 4:00 PM UTC 0Another attempt to socially network books has bitten the dust. Maybe readers just want to be alone
Wednesday, Apr 16, 2014 11:00 PM UTC 0Pregnant, my nightmares became too real -- and brought anxiety and sadness only his safe arrival could soothe
Tuesday, Apr 15, 2014 10:59 PM UTC 0There is now an academic definition of an a**hole, and knowing it will help you interact with them
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"Cubed": How the American office worker wound up in a box
