Kiss The Ring: Richard Wagner’s Opera Festival in the Age of AI

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Unis and schools are moving away from AI-detection software. They should stop using it altogether

Artificial Intelligence detection tools can sometimes create more problems for teachers and students than they fix.

Mark A. Bassett, Associate Professor and Director, Academic Quality, Standards, and Integrity, Charles Sturt University·Sep 23, 2026

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Got Writer’s Block? Go to the Theater!

This first appeared in Lit Hub’s Craft of Writing newsletter—sign up here. I love art that seems like it came from outer space, that seems unrelated to anything else in the Zeitgeist, that makes me wonder how the artist ever came up

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An AI model has found a new ‘CRISPR-like’ biological system. Here’s what it means for science

After coding, mathematics and chatbots, AI companies are setting their sights on the messy world of biology.

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“The dating app has engineered what one might call an Enneagrammatical system of bookish star signs.”

Gemma Sieff·Sep 25, 2026

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John Berger, Death’s Secretary: A Conversation with Tom Overton

“The first letter I sent to him was about a print that he’d made, which was in the archive—a Chagall-inspired Virgin Mary standing on a donkey.”

Scott Schomburg·Sep 24, 2026