“A mental pentathlete.” That’s how Joyelle McSweeney describes the genre-defying Canadian writer Anne Carson—the winner of the 2026 Nobel Prize in Literature, the subject of several other BR essays, ...

Kristin Grogan is Associate Professor of English at Rutgers University and author of Stitch, Unstitch: Modernist Poetry and the World of Work. She is working on a book about Sylvia Plath.

In 1908 American journalist John Kenneth Turner traveled around Mexico with Mexican lawyer, writer, and union organizer Lázaro Gutiérrez de Lara. Posing as an investor and his translator, the pair ...

This week, OpenAI claimed that a swarm of its agents—about ten times as many as involved in July’s Hugging Face security breach—solved one of the million-dollar Millennium Prize problems, some of the ...

When we were hired by the United Electrical Workers to spearhead the union drive at Twitter, it seemed the tech industry might finally be bending to progressive pressure. It was early in 2022, a year ...