A secret question hovers over us, a sense of disappointment, a broken promise we were given as children about what our adult world was supposed to be like. I am referring not to the standard false pro

If you’ve clicked on any articles about the victims of recent terror attacks, you might have seen a photo of the man above. Following the deadly terrorist attack at Atatürk airport in Istanbul, Turkey

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‘To see Nigel Farage there with his desktop flag was to suddenly and irrevocably understand it: the UK is the Gareth Keenan of Europe.’Photograph: Isopix/Rex/Shutterstock I n a crowded field, I think

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Miranda Sawyer warming up for a 10K race in 2014.Photograph: Karen Robinson/The Observer T hese are the facts. I am in my 40s. I have a job. I am married. We have children and a flat with no garden, a

“We are at a momentous moment in the history of the full stop,” said David Crystal, who has written more than 100 books on language LONDON — One of the oldest forms of punctuation may be dying The per

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A Candid Interview With a Chatbot On March 23, Microsoft revealed Tay, a Twitter bot trained to chat like a millennial. It worked … too well. Within hours, Tay was spewing racist, misogynist, xenophob

Editor’s Note: Conservative proponents of the guaranteed income want a lump sum payment ( Charles Murray suggests about $11,000 to all adults) to replace existing social welfare programs and downsize

The Internet will never tire of the strange beauty of an awkwardly placed cat. This poor feline who is stuck on the stairs, somewhere between a comfy cat-loaf position and actually being able to stand

In the late 1990s, when I wanted more than anything to be a famous writer, I took a job as assistant to J.D. Salinger’s literary agent at Harold Ober Associates, the oldest literary agency in the coun

Australian smokers are set to pay $45 [about $33 USD] for a packet of cigarettes by September 2020. The tax increase will be gradual, with a steady rise of 12.5 percent each year between 2017 and 2020

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Above: A 1945 Tribune story tells the tale of the famously macabre Whitechapel Club. At the end of the 19th century, America had still never seen a belly dancer. So when Omene, a natural self-promoter

Louis Pattison looks back two decades to when the electronic musician Bryn Jones was at the height of his powers recording as Muslimgauze - and speaks to the people who knew him and musicians who were

Gary Devore was driving home through the Mojave Desert having just finished a film script. Devore was a successful Hollywood screenwriter, script doctor and producer, known for films like Raw Deal, st

Since the 2008 financial crisis, colleges and universities have faced increased pressure to identify essential disciplines, and cut the rest. In 2009, Washington State University announced it would el

A recent experiment in which an artificially intelligent chatbot became virulently racist highlights the challenges we could face if machines ever become superintelligent. As difficult as developing a

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When I turned 30, I took my first short story workshop. I was working in commercial banking, a career I fell into with indifference followed by inertia after graduating from college. I was also playin

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The Stone is a forum for contemporary philosophers and other thinkers on issues both timely and timeless. John Gall Speakers and writers of American English have recently taken to identifying a stagge

Publishers are continuously looking for new ways to expand their reach. One sure bet? Video. Even Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg recognizes this. Discussing the company’s performance last year, h

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WHO CREATED Donald Trump? Now that Donald Trump, the candidate, has become both widely popular and deeply loathsome, we’re seeing a cataract of editorials and commentary aimed at explaining how it hap

Barker is fascinated by the question of how artists represent the wounded. Illustration by Malika Favre Early in “Life Class,” the first of Pat Barker’s three novels about a group of painters who meet

by Dean Kissick Dean Kissick discusses the shifting value of the term “artist” in our current state of global affairs and the complicity between Comedien Nathan Fielder and political figures from Donald Trump to Vladimir Putin. Recently the American television comedy Nathan For You was described on…

Screenshot from 9th Circuit video Share this story In September, the US Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit issued its ruling in the "Dancing Baby" copyright takedown case, initiated by the Electroni

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A statue of King Sejong the Great, who created Korean script, in 1446, sits in Gwanghwamun Square, in Seoul. PHOTOGRAPH BY Q. SAKAMAKI / REDUX In Seoul’s Gwanghwamun Square, a shining bronze statue of King Sejong the Great, the fourth ruler of the Joseon dynasty, presides over twelve lanes of…

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When overused, a word loses the force of its original meaning. I knew it was all over for “awesome” in the sense of “awe-inspiring” when I heard high-school cheerleaders spelling it out at a football game: “A-W-E-S-O-M-E. AweSOME! AweSOME!” (My young linebacker friend agreed, saying, “What does that…

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Architecture writer, Pulp essayist and ‘guilty nostalgist’ Owen Hatherley talks to Karen Shook about retro tat, George Orwell’s dreams, Wilfred Owen’s hair, Ken Loach’s Hovis-advert socialism and that

M ost people who play video games have played a game made with Unity – even if they don’t know it. Originally launched in 2005, this adaptable, cross-platform game engine is freely available to amateu

If I had known then what I know now, I wouldn’t have momentarily lost consciousness upon seeing a certain review in Bookforum . This was about nine years ago, and the review wasn’t even of a book I ha