Walter Isaacson's new company, Boswell & Co., which uses artificial intelligence as a tool to write commissioned biographies, is disappointing for those who care about biography as an art form rather...

Tulane University professor and biographer Walter Isaacson has launched a new company with the help of two recent Tulane alumni that aims to connect clients with writers to turn their life stories into...

The Atlantic editor-in-chief, Jeffrey Goldberg, kicked off the opening night of the New Orleans Book Festival at Tulane University in conversation with Gen. Stanley McChrystal and foreign policy journalist...

Tulane University unveiled the lineup for the fifth annual New Orleans Book Festival, which will welcome over 100 nationally acclaimed and best-selling authors to Tulane’s Uptown campus. Book Fest will...

Almost every American can recite the first lines of the Declaration of Independence: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with...

Can machines think? Proposed by British computer scientist Alan Turing, it is arguably the most famous opening line of an academic paper and a question that continues to be debated 70 years after it...

Authors Walter Isaacson and Michael Lewis will visit Tulane University on Wednesday to discuss their new books on two of the most controversial technology leaders of the modern era.  Isaacson, who...

Tulane professor Walter Isaacson was awarded a National Humanities Medal “for chronicling the history and genius of America” through his bestselling biographies, the White House said in a ceremony...

On Saturday, a roster of prominent authors, Oscar nominees, diplomats and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists transformed Tulane University's campus into a literary extravaganza for the third and final...

Thursday marked the opening day for the New Orleans Book Festival at Tulane University, culminating in the highly anticipated appearance of the festival’s headliner, Bill Gates.    Conversing...

Students packed the class and dared the computer to compose a poem.    “Write a limerick,” they typed.    Easy.   “Write a sonnet,” they typed next.    Fourteen...

For three days, Tulane University will host the New Orleans Book Festival, beginning March 10 and running through March 12.    The festival will feature over 100 national, regional and...