For a while last year, scientists offered a glimmer of hope that artificial intelligence would make a positive contribution to democracy. They showed that chatbots could address conspiracy theories ...

For a while last year, scientists offered a glimmer of hope that artificial intelligence would make a positive contribution to democracy. They showed that chatbots could address conspiracy theories ...

Writer Gish Jen recently had a revelation about her novels: her characters often talk to the dead. But in her most recent work, “Bad Bad Girl,” the dead talk back. In this book, Jen fictionalizes real ...

It's been 37 years since Annabeth Gish rose to fame alongside Julia Roberts and Lili Taylor in the '80s coming-of-age film Mystic Pizza. But as her stunning new Instagram photos show, Gish has found ...

More than two years after the buildings on it were torn down, construction of a new furniture store and strip retail center is set to begin on a high-profile property across from Tanger Outlets. The ...

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You never wrote about your mother. Call it a challenge, an observation, or a dare, that was what Gish Jen was thinking as she set out to write her tenth book—did she want to wake up one day and ...

Such marvels the dead are: They never fail to surprise the living. This is particularly true of deceased parents and all the conversations they insist on having with their adult children. Now that ...

Gish Jen's "Bad Bad Girl" tells the story of the author's damaging relationship with her mother. (Book cover courtesy Knopf; author photo courtesy Basso Cannarsa) Gish Jen’s “Bad Bad Girl” is a ...

Gish Jen has been publishing novels and short stories since 1991, when her debut, “Typical American,” was nominated for a National Book Critics’ Circle Award. But as Jen points out in the “Author’s ...