Rhea Purohit in Learning Curve Was this newsletter forwarded to you? Sign up to get it in your inbox. A few Fridays ago, there was an awkward silence at Every’s editorial meeting. Six floating heads ...

Some people think there’s a surefire way to tell — the em dash. Writers ... humble punctuation mark — or its overuse — as a sign that writing is produced by generative AI tools like ...

On the one hand, the received opinion that the long dash is a product of generative AI that basically didn’t exist in years past is a worrying sign about public literacy: Celebrated poets and ...