A new study by the novelist and scholar Namwali Serpell subjects the Nobel laureate’s work to rigorous inspection — with thrilling results. By Wesley Morris In “Leaving Home,” the writer and ...

Reading recommendations from critics and editors at The New York Times. His public radio show, “Bookworm,” was a literary salon of the air for 33 years, drawing guests like Joan Didion, Susan Sontag ...

A field experiment shows that turning on the algorithmic feed on the social-media platform X in 2023 shifted political opinions to the right, whereas turning it off had no effect on political ...

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Synthetic data generated by generative artificial intelligence models can serve as a substitute for real patient data. In this Review, Eckardt et al. discuss how synthetic data sets can overcome ...

ESPN’s Stephen A. Smith is not ruling out a presidential bid. But the notion of turning another campaign into TMZ is a terrible idea. The clip is the product. Governance is incidental. Trump’s trade ...