All Ben’s Boys
An institution entering the last of its salad days while still running on the fumes of its preening self-importance.
Cosmogonies
Posted on February 8, 2023
in THR Web Features
Image: “How to Fly Without Wings” by Jeremy Botts; http://www.fiammascura.com/.
Fiction writers are world builders.
What the Light Says We Are
How we become convinced that life demands our devoted love.
Introducing Critical Miniatures
Posted on January 26, 2023
in THR Web Features
Image: THR illustration; Alamy Stock Photo.
A new, exclusive web series.
The Postmodern Pope
Benedict shared with skeptics, postmodernists, and existentialists the suspicion of the modern trust in the benevolence of the human will.
The Mechanical Imagination
by
John Fechtel
Posted on January 11, 2023
in THR Web Features
Image: A collage of DALL•E 2 hedgehog renderings.
In the output of the AI generated image, the technique is there but the techne is not.
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