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The Latest Breaking News from Walter Benjamin

New research shows people can’t tell the difference between human and AI poetry – and even prefer the latter. What gives?

Here are some lines Sylvia Plath never wrote:

The Conversation

TechScape: Elon Musk is stumping hard for Donald Trump

Plus: art on Samsung TVs, babies’ faces online and the iPhone 16 Pro reviewed

The Guardian - US

Elegantly and chaotically, Rodney Hall falls into the vortex of history

Rodney Hall’s Vortex is the 13th novel in a long and distinguished career that includes two Miles Franklin Literary Awards for his earlier novels Just Relations (1982) and The Grisly Wife (1994). It is a historical novel, but with a particular sense of history in mind.

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Melbourne Symphony Orchestra joins the list of arts organisations erasing Palestine

By attempting to avoid controversy, the MSO has instead made a profound political statement.

Crikey

Translation is a challenge, as more works are made into Tamil with a boom in publishing

The translation of Shakespeare's Hamlet into Tamil at the Chennai Book Fair highlights the challenges and importance of translation in the publishing industry.

The Hindu

Walter Benjamin's Illuminations: the remarkably prescient work of an intellectual truth-seeker

In our Guide to the Classics series, experts explain key works of literature.

The Conversation

The latest Google phone promises to transform my children into perfect, smiling angels. Why would I want that?

I much prefer the fun and mess of unvarnished childhood snaps, says philosopher and writer Tom Whyman

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What is photocopying and how does it work? | Explained

Xerography revolutionised the way we copy, print, and distribute textual material. It allowed for the quick and cheap reproduction of printed material, and enabled the emergence of a vibrant arts scene, improved access to educational material, and, perhaps most importantly, rendered copying an independent activity.

The Hindu

The best new books released in May, as selected by avid readers and critics

A beautiful grifter, a defiant prodigy and a political prisoner star in this month’s best books, which our critics describe variously as "utterly engaging", "beguiling" and "profound".

ABC News

Edward George: ‘You can’t have Afrofuturism without some ambience of a fascist thinking creeping in’

The artist and film-maker talks about Black cultural history, Tupac Shakur, the evolution of dub and his remarkable cinema essays with the Black Audio Film Collective

The Guardian - UK

Friday essay: scary tales for scary times

Progress, the German philosopher Walter Benjamin once wrote, is a storm. The winds that propel us forward also uproot and tear apart what we leave behind. The modern world is a world of progress and it leaves in its wake the ruins of the old world.

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