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An exploration of how writing systems, from ancient Chinese characters to modern alphabets, shape language, and whether users of ChatGPT can be said to be authors at all.

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Oliver Burkeman, the author of several books about getting comfortable with imperfection, discusses some books that have shaped his thinking about how to live a less harried, more enchanted life.

The Winds of Winter, the long, long-awaited sixth book in George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire series, is among the most-anticipated works of fiction. The next entry in the fantasy saga on ...