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When does comedy become more than a laugh? Ben Mangrum of MIT joins RtB to discuss his new book, The Comedy of Computation: Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Obsolescence (Stanford University Press, 2025), which in some ways is organized around “the...
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NOVEL THEORY SPEAKERS: Elyse Graham (Stonybrook University); Benjamin Mangrum (MIT); Tom Comitta Literature as thinking, or, why AI can’t nail metaphors – Elyse Graham This paper explores why large language models (LLMs), for all their superficial...
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In his newest published book, Professor Bruno Perreau explores the resonances between minority experiences –what he calls intrasectionality– and how they contribute to improving democratic systems and expanding legal protections for all. For so doing, Bruno...
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Volume 47, No. 17, September 2025 of the London Review of Books features a review of Professor Arthur Bahr’s newest book Chasing the Pearl-Manuscript: Speculation, Shapes, Delight. It delves into the history of the works that survived a fire in 1731 as well as...
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Come join Prof. Ruth Perry and fellow alumni to learn about The Ballad World of Anna Gordon, Mrs. Brown of Falkland. Prof. Perry’s new book contains the known facts and the family stories of the eighteenth-century Forbes and Gordons in the North-east of Scotland; an...
