People can and should be skeptical about the sonnets written about starting NFL quarterbacks every offseason, when no one is getting sacked and almost everyone looks good.
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Scott Fowler,
Charlotte Observer,
30 July 2026
In his sonnets, Shakespeare pairs was with glass, and warmed with disarmed.
This is a classic stair-step uptrend, the kind the poets of Ancient Greece composed odes to and bards of the north told tales about around the fire in days of old.
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Josh Brown,Sean Russo,
CNBC,
21 Sep. 2026
Staluppi has many odes to 007 from varying shipyards out there, all named for films featuring Ian Fleming’s iconic character.
Instead of collectivity, there is a certain kind of animal community, or one that the poems’ speakers—children, old men, drunks, prostitutes—often stand apart from.
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Max Norman,
Harpers Magazine,
22 Sep. 2026
The poems push against the binaries of leaving and being left and embrace ongoing love in the wake of loss.
Their books are therefore, in some respects, elegies to a conception of reading and writing which seems to be nearing an end.
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Louis Menand,
New Yorker,
21 Sep. 2026
The touchstones are plentiful—Harmonia’s cyclical drift, Alice Coltrane’s stargazing elegies, gamelan’s hypnotic shimmer—but the song is strange and unpredictable.
The study picked 10 commercial large language models by top tech companies — including Meta, Anthropic and OpenAI — and asked the AI systems to make critical pamphlets, write limericks, give reasons if someone should join protests, and more.
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