From gripping thrillers, witty satires and poignant epics to captivating histories and juicy memoirs, this year's top reads ...

Even when no artificial intelligence (AI) is watching, writers are rewriting themselves, flattening their voices, policing ...

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ON CHRISTMAS morning, as we kids sat around the tree and opened our presents, a small detail would go almost unnoticed.

This is what the Defector staff listened to and enjoyed this year. From the Pyre, by The Last Dinner Party In a year where ...

Social media and ChatGPT are changing the way we use text. Artists are pulling text in different directions in their practice, too. Some examples from recent shows across Goa and New Delhi.

Is the seller suspicious? New and blank profiles with no profile pictures, limited personal information and few ratings are a ...

While some used Photoshop to get around the redactions, others simply copied and pasted the redacted text into a word ...

Every year, editors for publications ranging from the Oxford English Dictionary to the Macquarie Dictionary of Australian English select a "word of the year." ...

The University of Hawaii at Manoa English department has selected “analogue” as its 2025 Word of the Year for Hawaii, ...

Image generated with AI. Based on the architecture of Gemini 3, the new model text-to-image Google’s Nano Banana Pro ...