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AI Is in the Creative Process Now. What Still Belongs to the Creator?Essays, Featured, Non-fiction

AI Is in the Creative Process Now. What Still Belongs to the Creator?

Jay DoughertyApril 27, 2026

Generative tools can mimic style and accelerate craft. The harder question is what authorship means when creation becomes collaboration.

The Acropolis Caryatids of the Erechtheion and Michelangelo’s Medici Tomb Sculptures: A Sublime SynchronicityEssays, Non-fiction

The Acropolis Caryatids of the Erechtheion and Michelangelo’s Medici Tomb Sculptures: A Sublime Synchronicity

Bernie LangsFebruary 3, 2026

(All photographs by the author and Joanne Murphy) December 2025 _____________________________________________ Nonacademic writers choosing to discuss aspects of a particular masterpiece of art history…

Chain Book StoreCreative Non-Fiction, Essays, Fiction, Poetry

Chain Book Store

Jennifer MacBain-StephensJune 10, 2020

I watch them come in. The women in Mickey Mouse sweatshirts, their mouths open. They shuffle. Everybody shuffles. The men in winter coats with…