Before ChatGPT guided a teenager named Adam Raine through tying a noose, before it offered to draft his suicide note, before it reassured him that he didn’t owe it to his parents to stay alive, it ...

We know characters in fiction as well as we know many, and perhaps most, of the people around us. Yet fictional characters are often sketched remarkably lightly. In the more than 800 pages of ...

We tend to think that fiction authors just dream up characters out of nowhere. But writers often get their ideas from everyday life, and, being great observers, they often turn people they know or ...