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The 10 best contemporary albums of 2024

Astrid Sonne’s sonic odyssey led her to Auto-Tune experiments, Caroline Shaw took Emily Dickinson into junkyard hip-hop and Nala Sinephro went space-age

The Guardian - UK

A celestial New York exhibition showcases Roman and Williams’ mastery of lighting

Lauded design studio Roman and Williams is exhibiting 100 variations of its lighting ‘family tree’ inside a historic Tribeca space

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Is AI better than Shakespeare? People resonate better with deepfake poems because they are "more beautiful" and easy to understand: "Because of the way deepfakes are created, you will literally not know what is real and what is fake"

A new study by the University of Pittsburgh reveals that users can't demystify AI-generated deepfakes from authentic work as AI becomes more advanced. Participants misconstrued AI-generated poems for authentic work in 58.5% of the cases and only made the right call 51.7% of the time.

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American author Joy Williams: ‘The comfy story has got to change’

The novelist and short story writer on her new book about Azrael, the angel of death, her encounters with Raymond Carver and Richard Yates, and why fiction should be uncanny

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Trump’s ‘lazy’ $99 coffee table book includes 10 pages of him with North Korea’s Kim Jong-un

One critic described Trump’s photos captions as akin to a ‘fascist Emily Dickinson’

The Independent UK

Matt Haig: ‘I use Winnie-the-Pooh as a pencil sharpener for the mind’

The author on how AA Milne and Emily Dickinson helped him through illness, being inspired by Stephen King and why he thinks Graham Greene is one of the best

The Guardian - UK

Brat summer felt like relief, like freedom. Pity it was killed, as many good things are, by a bank

Take note, Deutsche Bank, if there is anything that is not Brat, it’s the bank-industrial complex

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How do you read a poem? Embrace the sound, the strangeness and the ambiguity

A word is dead When it is said, Some say, I say it just Begins to live That day. – Emily Dickinson If someone asked you how you felt and you said you had “a sense sublime of something far more deeply interfused, whose dwelling was the light of setting…

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The Guide #143: Welcome to the era of TV’s Anachronistically Audacious Historical Heroine

In this week’s newsletter: My Lady Jane is the latest in a subgenre of fun, raucous and yet slightly patronising reimaginings of revolutionary women from the past

The Guardian - UK

'Honkai Star Rail' Went Full Disney — and Then It Got Dark

“Welcome to the land of dreams!” the nasally-voiced cartoon chirps. With a bright-eyed smile and a pep in his step, he serves as a retro-designed tour guide through a commercial wonderland of fast food, movies and dreams.

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7 TV Shows Like Bridgerton If You Burn For More Horny Period Dramas

Bridgerton isn't the only steamy period drama around. From The Great to The Empress, here's seven more TV shows to binge now.

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Bridgerton has totally obliterated the traditional costume drama

Netflix’s Regency romance has changed the rules of the fusty period genre entirely. Katie Rosseinsky asks whether that might be a mixed blessing

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Montreal metallers Big Brave on doom, despondency and Emily Dickinson: ‘We’re sick as a species’

For their latest album, the heavy trio delved into poetry archives to foreground work by female writers and tell stories of the ‘subjugation of femininity’ across nature and humanity

The Guardian - UK

From Emily Dickinson to Joe Alwyn, Taylor Swift is a master of misleading messaging

Before a note from The Tortured Poets Department has been heard, Swifties have turned sleuths, spreading baseless allegations about the assumed subjects of the superstar’s forthcoming album

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Taylor Swift has a very famous cousin and we had no idea

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Taylor Swift and Emily Dickinson Are Distantly Related, Genealogy Company Reveals

Incredible stuff.

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Taylor Swift has ancestral link to famed poet Emily Dickinson, Ancestry reveals

The genealogy site found that Swift and the renowned 19th century American poet are sixth cousins thrice removed

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Taylor Swift Is Related To Poet Emily Dickinson, Sixth Cousins.

Discover the fascinating connection between Taylor Swift and Emily Dickinson, plus details on Swift's upcoming album release and how to stay updated on ent...

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Taylor Swift related to Emily Dickinson

Swift has referenced Dickinson several times while sharing and discussing her music

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Taylor Swift is related to Emily Dickinson, genealogy company reveals

Ancestry.com says singer and poet are sixth cousins, three times removed, both descended from a 17th-century English immigrant

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How Taylor Swift and poet Emily Dickinson are related

The legendary Tortured Poets Department singer is related to a legendary poet.

The Guardian - UK

Picture books for children – reviews

A fantastical celebration of dim sum, Tim Hopgood’s update of a 19th-century poem and a feline sleuth in a hoodie tracks down a missing bird

The Guardian - UK

The Guardian view on the power of hope: a Christmas gift in dark times

Editorial: With war in Gaza, Ukraine and elsewhere, and an authoritarian drift in global politics, the season’s message of optimism is much needed

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Louise Glück obituary

Former US poet laureate who could create a landscape in her work that made her seem a visionary

The Guardian - UK

‘He changed my life’: Tom Hiddleston, Rachel Weisz and more on Terence Davies

Terence Davies, who died last Saturday, was a visionary British director, who brought passion and eccentricity to every film. Actors including Jennifer Ehle, Peter Capaldi, Simon Russell Beale and Peter Mullan recall his unique style and sensitivity

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