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In my Boston Globe review of Louise Erdrich’s 2016 novel “LaRose,” I described her as “an artist of the liminal.” “Python’s Kiss,” Erdrich’s new collection of stories written over 20 years, testifies ...

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Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Object Arjuna 2025 PN7 was thought to be a meteorite in an Earthlike orbit, but that is now being questioned. The new hypothesis suggests that 2025 ...

Recently, a friend asked me a question that's been floating around every boardroom and business school: "With AI writing code, does programming still matter?" It's a fair question. Generative AI can ...

Rollercoaster Tycoon wasn’t the most fashionable computer game out there in 1999. But if you took a look beneath the pixels—the rickety rides, the crowds of hungry, thirsty, barfing people (and the ...

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