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Author Hernan Diaz spoke with Nature about his new novel 'Ply,' describing how studying physics shaped his worldview and influenced his writing. The interview, published on nature.com, explores the connection between scientific thinking and his literary work.
Startup Red Queen Bio is applying artificial intelligence to design antibody treatments aimed at novel pathogens. The company frames its work as preparation against future biological threats that could themselves be engineered using AI tools.
A debut crime novelist's $2 million book deal collapsed after rumors surfaced that AI had helped write the manuscript, prompting his own literary agents to pull it from consideration. The incident, born from a fierce bidding war among fourteen publishing houses, has become emblematic of a broader cultural reckoning over AI use that is now spreading from creative industries into everyday corporate workplaces.
A writer describes a recurring pattern in reading fiction: novels often begin tediously before hitting a turning point—borrowed from the poetic term 'volta'—after which they become compulsively readable. To test the idea, the author had several friends read Graham Greene's 'The End of the Affair' and report when this shift occurred for them, finding the moment varied widely, from page 20 to much later in the book.
A literary essay examines how Edgar Allan Poe's stories derive their terror not from the murders depicted but from the confessions that follow them, tracing this back to Poe's own career struggles as an editor at Graham's magazine in 1841 Philadelphia. It details Poe's financial precariousness as a writer, noting he earned little from his early books despite growing critical respect, and had to rely on magazine work to make a living.