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You’re reading Open Questions, Joshua Rothman’s weekly column exploring what it means to be human. This summer, I reread the novel “Aurora,” by Kim Stanley Robinson, a science-fiction writer whom I ...

On a blustery spring Thursday, just after midterms, I went out for noodles with Alex and Eugene, two undergraduates at New York University, to talk about how they use artificial intelligence in their ...

Author Kwame Alexander has launched a national literacy nonprofit called One Word at a Time. Alexander’s 501(c)(3) organization aims to inspire middle graders to read and try their hand at creative ...

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