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Surrealism

Visual Tedium

by Tom Wolfe,

From “The Painted Word,” which appeared in the April 1975 issue of Harper’s Magazine. The complete article—along with the magazine’s entire 174-year archive—is available online at harpers.org/archive. People don’t read…

Computer Bits

From AI-generated explanations of New Yorker cartoons created for a study published in July 2023 in Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. The scene…

Surrealistic pillow talk

by André Breton, Albert Valentin, Paul Eluard, Georges Sadoul, Pierre Unik,Edited by Jose Pierre,Translated by Malcolm Imrie,