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Angourie Rice & Spike Fearn go head-to-head in Finding Emily quiz

Angourie Rice and Spike Fearn sit down with The Independent to discuss their new hit romcom, Finding Emily.

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‘Like a computer in my heart’: how AI poetry betrays our desire for human connection

Could I but ride indefinite As doth the meadow-bee And visit only where I liked, And no man visit me, I’d soar above the verdant hills, In search of hidden glades, Where sunlight filters through the trees, And dances in the shades. The breeze would be my constant friend, The…

The Conversation

Soft Serve by George Kemp review – moving coming-of-age debut set in a regional McDonald’s

Climate carnage is a metaphor for the pain of loss, as an encroaching bushfire traps four people under the golden arches

The Guardian - AU

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Friday essay: racism, misogyny and culture wars: Zadie Smith and Anne Enright help us make sense of troubling times

Essay collections gather a writer’s thoughts over time and can be read as an oblique form of memoir, one in which the self is revealed through a series of conversations with the world.

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‘The Ziggy Stardust suit sparked my adolescent awakening’: Moby, Goldie, Natalie Merchant and more delve inside Bowie’s archives

As a huge new public collection opens this weekend, famous fans pick out their touchstones – from the game-changing wardrobe that gave birth to glam to the synthesiser that drove his Berlin years

The Guardian - UK

Sarah Connolly/Joseph Middleton: The World Feels Dusty album review – powerful narrations spanning Ella Fitzgerald to Emily Dickinson

With sweeping, full colour piano Connolly and Middleton pay attention to every word, every harmonic shift in a performance of appealing immediacy

The Guardian - UK

Find Inspiration Quickly With 100 Hand-Picked Short Quotes

Find Inspiration Quickly With 100 Hand-Picked Short Quotes. Discover deep, short quotes about life, love, and experience. Get inspired and motivated with positive and inspirational life quotes.

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Mythical, slippery, shapeshifting: Grief is the Thing With Feathers transforms tragedy into literature

Max Porter lost his father when he was just six years old. He has described his first book, Grief is the Thing with Feathers, as “a love letter to my dad”.

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AI can’t have my em dash

Gen Z and AI have pulled a divisive punctuation mark into the spotlight

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Poem of the week: Death sets a Thing significant … by Emily Dickinson

The traces of a lost friend are keenly felt in the material things they once touched

The Guardian - UK

A publishing insider’s debut novel includes a fiery author affair and a mystery manuscript. Is any of it real?

Caro Llewellyn’s successful nonfiction publications include her 2019 Stella Prize shortlisted memoir Diving into Glass. That book begins and ends with her experience of multiple sclerosis, which was first diagnosed in 2009, while she was programming the PEN World Voices Festival in New York.

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Barry Malzberg obituary

Prolific science fiction writer who conceived alternative lives for figures including Emily Dickinson and Sigmund Freud

The Guardian - UK

The 10 best contemporary albums of 2024

Astrid Sonne’s sonic odyssey led her to Auto-Tune experiments, Caroline Shaw took Emily Dickinson into junkyard hip-hop and Nala Sinephro went space-age

The Guardian - UK

A celestial New York exhibition showcases Roman and Williams’ mastery of lighting

Lauded design studio Roman and Williams is exhibiting 100 variations of its lighting ‘family tree’ inside a historic Tribeca space

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Is AI better than Shakespeare? People resonate better with deepfake poems because they are "more beautiful" and easy to understand: "Because of the way deepfakes are created, you will literally not know what is real and what is fake"

A new study by the University of Pittsburgh reveals that users can't demystify AI-generated deepfakes from authentic work as AI becomes more advanced. Participants misconstrued AI-generated poems for authentic work in 58.5% of the cases and only made the right call 51.7% of the time.

The Guardian - UK

American author Joy Williams: ‘The comfy story has got to change’

The novelist and short story writer on her new book about Azrael, the angel of death, her encounters with Raymond Carver and Richard Yates, and why fiction should be uncanny

The Independent UK

Trump’s ‘lazy’ $99 coffee table book includes 10 pages of him with North Korea’s Kim Jong-un

One critic described Trump’s photos captions as akin to a ‘fascist Emily Dickinson’

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Matt Haig: ‘I use Winnie-the-Pooh as a pencil sharpener for the mind’

The author on how AA Milne and Emily Dickinson helped him through illness, being inspired by Stephen King and why he thinks Graham Greene is one of the best

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Brat summer felt like relief, like freedom. Pity it was killed, as many good things are, by a bank

Take note, Deutsche Bank, if there is anything that is not Brat, it’s the bank-industrial complex

The Conversation

How do you read a poem? Embrace the sound, the strangeness and the ambiguity

A word is dead When it is said, Some say, I say it just Begins to live That day. – Emily Dickinson If someone asked you how you felt and you said you had “a sense sublime of something far more deeply interfused, whose dwelling was the light of setting…

The Guardian - UK

The Guide #143: Welcome to the era of TV’s Anachronistically Audacious Historical Heroine

In this week’s newsletter: My Lady Jane is the latest in a subgenre of fun, raucous and yet slightly patronising reimaginings of revolutionary women from the past

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'Honkai Star Rail' Went Full Disney — and Then It Got Dark

“Welcome to the land of dreams!” the nasally-voiced cartoon chirps. With a bright-eyed smile and a pep in his step, he serves as a retro-designed tour guide through a commercial wonderland of fast food, movies and dreams.

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7 TV Shows Like Bridgerton If You Burn For More Horny Period Dramas

Bridgerton isn't the only steamy period drama around. From The Great to The Empress, here's seven more TV shows to binge now.

The Independent UK

Bridgerton has totally obliterated the traditional costume drama

Netflix’s Regency romance has changed the rules of the fusty period genre entirely. Katie Rosseinsky asks whether that might be a mixed blessing

The Guardian - UK

Montreal metallers Big Brave on doom, despondency and Emily Dickinson: ‘We’re sick as a species’

For their latest album, the heavy trio delved into poetry archives to foreground work by female writers and tell stories of the ‘subjugation of femininity’ across nature and humanity

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