How to Use Claude to Turn Your Handwriting Into a Custom Font

It’s a great, easy way to turn your handwriting into a font, but you can use it to create any typeface you can imagine as long as long as you have the adequate drawing skills. I tried it myself and it ...
Legit.ng

How to become a full-stack developer in Nigeria vs the UK, and how does earning potential compare?

Learn how to become a full-stack developer in Nigeria vs the UK. Compare 2026 salary scales, bootcamps like AltSchool, UK ...
The Washington Post

In some classrooms, teachers ask: Can AI teach students to write better?

When Craig Schmidt gave his high school English students an assignment based on “Fahrenheit 451,” he threw them a curveball: He told them to use ChatGPT. Schmidt asked the class to write several ...
The Atlantic

Does Writing Have to Be Hard?

This is an edition of Time-Travel Thursdays, a journey through The Atlantic’s archives to contextualize the present. Sign up here. ChatGPT and food-delivery droids came to my campus at roughly the ...
Town & Country

The Spy Who Raised Me: John le Carré’s Son Tells All

As the author Nick Harkaway dreams up the continued adventures of George Smiley, he doesn’t feel the presence of his late father, John Le Carré, Smiley’s creator, watching over him. “That would be ...
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10 Greatest John le Carré Books, Ranked

Luc Haasbroek is a writer and videographer from Durban, South Africa. He has been writing professionally about pop culture for eight years. Luc's areas of interest are broad: he's just as passionate ...
The New Yorker

Why We Can’t Stop Reading—and Writing—Food Diaries

On November 21, 2020, a young woman in Brooklyn named Tanya Bush began to keep a diary of sorts. On Instagram, under the handle @will.this.make.me.happy, she posted a photo of a craggy yellow pastry ...
The Chicago Maroon

UChicago to Overhaul Undergraduate Writing Program and Introduce New Core Writing Course

Starting in autumn quarter 2025, the University will begin a multi-year restructuring of the undergraduate writing program, which had previously run concurrently with the humanities Core sequence.
American Songwriter

50 Years Ago, a No. 1 Hit Song About Writing Songs Was Recorded by a Famous Pop Star (and He Didn’t Write It)

Johnston wrote “I Write The Songs” during a several-year hiatus from The Beach Boys in the 1970s. Manilow didn’t initially record the song when he was presented with it, because he was worried that ...
The New Yorker

How Do You Write About the Inexplicable?

You’re reading Open Questions, Joshua Rothman’s weekly column exploring what it means to be human. I’m a rational person. I grew up in a family of scientists. My dad, who studied the brain, told me ...
The Atlantic

My Students Write Their Papers Backwards

In my high-school English classes, I often tell my students that they write their papers backwards: They devise a thesis and then look for evidence to support it. They’ll find what they want to see, I ...