How will GPT-3’s reimagining of a Shakespeare classic hold up under literary scrutiny?
Tag: literature
‘Whatever people say I am, that’s what I’m not’: Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
Alan Sillitoe’s 1958 novel has been praised for its authentic depiction of postwar Nottingham. But does its innovative style cast off the label of ‘realist’?
The sound of silence in Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye
Morrison demonstrates how imagining music in the mind’s ear can function in literature
A-flat for Billy Strayhorn
The jazz world was blessed to have composer and arranger Billy Strayhorn
Candid Book Club: The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Be tickled and tortured by one of Dostoevsky’s most admired works
Candid Book Club: Crime and Punishment
Fyodor Dostoevsky’s philosophical blockbuster is more millennial than outmoded
Review: Little Women
The BBC’s adaptation is more salted caramel than a sickly spoonful of sugar
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