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In the light of the strangely half-assed military parade in Washington over the weekend, here’s something I wrote 17 years ago about how the...

2017, Hammersmith Apollo, London.  Billed as the last time Brian would play Pet Sounds in London. Brian looks baffled, barely touches his pi...

Wes Anderson is one of the few remaining filmmakers whose work demands to be consumed on the big screen and a few days ago I was all prepare...

Salman Rushdie has declared that writers are safe until AI learns how to tell jokes . At about the same time, I was asking Chat GPT to write...

In the New Yorker, Namwali Serpell laments the excessive literalism that bedevils modern movies, exemplified by the Best Picture Oscar winn...

Of course the news that an AI-generated summer reading list for the Chicago Sun-Times was weighted heavily in favour of books that, er, don...

In a complicated world where we’ve lost the notion that we can assume everybody is aware of a core set of facts, it’s considered rude to poi...

Another reason I find it hard to get worked up about the creeping tentacles of social media is that its supposedly all-powerful algorithms, ...