The dramatic advances in emergency medical care since the introduction, in the late 1950s, of modern approaches to ...

Geoff Dyer is known for his stylish sentences and diverse subject matter. He has written fiction, nonfiction and essays. He’s ...

Performance – not just to our colleagues and peers, but also to our families, friends, lovers and even to ourselves – has been an enduring preoccupation for Katie Kitamura, and it comes sharply into ...

The French writer Anne Serre wrote Un Chapeau léopard (2008) shortly after the death of her sister. Many would choose to respond to such a loss with a memoir or a work of autofiction. By contrast, Un ...

Gaming is a serious business. This vast industry is increasingly an area of academic study, with conferences, journals and university modules dedicated to it. Robert Houghton leads one such module at ...

In November 2022, OpenAI released ChatGPT, a large language model (LLM) that can converse in flawless natural language, answer questions, solve maths problems and logic puzzles, write essays and ...

In the title story of Diabelli – a collection of short fiction by the Swiss writer Hermann Burger (1942–89), first published in 1979 – a washed-up prestidigitator describes the linguistic traits ...

What does a burial imply? Consider a simple inhumation, the slender body of the departed laid in a shallow pit by his former companions and covered with dirt. This sort of burial reveals a pragmatic ...

During protests in the US in the middle of 2020, a Predator drone circled in the sky above Minneapolis. Some 20,000ft below, the cops got to play with their toys: Humvees, armoured carriers with ...