Challenges and bans to books in public libraries and schools in the U.S. have steeply increased since 2022. What is behind this increase? And what do Stanford faculty have to say about it? Although ...

It's fall, which means it's Scholastic Book Fair season. Schools across the country are setting up shelves in their libraries and gymnasiums to let students shop a vast selection of books provided by ...

Book bans, chatbots, pedagogical warfare: What it means to read has become a minefield. Credit...Rodrigo Corral Supported by By A.O. Scott Everyone loves reading. In principle, anyway. Nobody is ...

SPOILER ALERT: This piece contains spoilers for the entirety of It Ends With Us. Christy Hall’s script for Sony’s It Ends With Us, adapted from the novel by Colleen Hoover, changes a few things from ...

If you’re a Colleen Hoover fan, or even if you’re not a Hoover fan, you’ve probably heard of “It Ends With Us.” Hoover’s 2016 novel is among her most popular books — and at this point, they’re all ...

Now that we’ve all had experience with large language models, their limitations are all too visible. Yes, they can write. But their prose doesn’t explode in the mind like the words of Jennifer Egan, ...

The words you’re reading are time travelers. They were written on a laptop that is technically brand new, in the sense that it was only released recently. But everything from the word processor this ...

Book lovers have all inevitably found themselves slogging through arid prose that stretches on endlessly. Sometimes the culprit is a popular novel whose obnoxious characters you’re desperate to run ...

When AI researcher Melanie Mitchell published Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans in 2019, she set out to clarify AI’s impact. A few years later, ChatGPT set off a new AI boom—with a ...