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A translation of the dohas of Rahim, general, poet, polyglot and bureaucrat in Emperor Akbar’s administration, that is erudite, enjoyable and edifying ...

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frontier proprietary and open-weight models yielded high attack success rates when prompted in verse, indicating a deeper, underlying problems in their ability to process ambiguity veiled in poetry.

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McCrae has been exploring the afterlife in his poetry for several years now, and here his reimagining of Dante’s Inferno is immersive in the best ways — captivating, terrifying and occasionally ...

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Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Englishness is in crisis, again. The self-conscious agonising over our national “character” — and how far we ...