The publishers of the first printed collection of Shakespeare’s plays had to come up with a sales marketing strategy — or what passed for one in 1623.
Julian Posada spent the COVID lockdown researching the working conditions of Latin Americans who do much of the data work needed for the growing artificial intelligence industry. And he became increasingly frustrated that discussions about the ethics of...
You’re staring at your officemates from the comfort of your home. They’re lined up on the Zoom screen, each against their preferred backdrops, each exposing only as much of their surroundings as they like.
You’re in your own space, but partly in theirs as...
Richard Deming was at work on an essay about the 2008 film “Synecdoche, New York” when he received an unexpected phone call from an old friend. Philip Seymour Hoffman, the star of that very film, had just been found dead of a drug overdose.
The news was...
It was a 2006 exhibition focused on melancholy in Western Art at the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin that planted a seed for Nana Adusei-Poku thinking about how grief, mourning, and sadness are expressed by artists of the African Diasporas.
“No artists of...
How is academia dealing with the influence of AI on student writing? Just ask ChatGPT, and it’ll deliver a list of 10 ways in which the rapidly expanding technology is creating both opportunities and challenges for faculty everywhere.
On the one hand, for...
As a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Cambridge, Nicole Sheriko had access to vast archives relevant to her specialty: early English puppetry. But not all the puppet treasure was on campus.
Harrison David Rivers was teaching playwriting at Kenyon College in 2018 when he got the call.
The Binger Center for New Theatre, a program of Yale Repertory Theatre and the David Geffen School of Drama at Yale, was offering him a sizable commission to...
In August 1938, James Joseph “Jimmy” Hines, the Tammany Hall leader of the Eleventh Assembly District of Manhattan, became the subject of a media feeding frenzy. Hines was charged with being a paid protector of the illegal lottery ring operated by mobster...
As an undergraduate at Oberlin College and Conservatory, Daniel Walden spent a lot of time playing music written before 1900, sometimes on instruments dating back to the same period. One day he sat down at a harpsichord that was tuned in what’s called...