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The article discusses two computer science research papers concerning artificial intelligence (AI). Topics explored include the susceptibility of deep convolutional neural networks to input pertubations acknowledged in the 2013 study "Intriguing Properties of Neural Networks," by Christian Szegedy and colleagues, and the capability of sequence-to-sequence language models to execute short computer programs reported in the 2014 study "Learning to Execute," by Wojciech Zaremba and Ilya Sutskever.

The short story "The Paper Plane at the Empire State Building" by Nagad‾ Eikichi is presented.

While Monica Ali's remarkable novel Brick Lane narrates the experience of a Bangladeshi community living in the Towering Hamlets of London, it also focuses on the protagonist, Nazneen's struggle both as a woman and as an individual in a foreign country. Be it a process of assimilation or getting entrapped into cultural hybridization, while continuously encountering identity crisis, dislocation, and rotating in an 'un-homed' space, Nazneen was necessarily dealing with the complexities of transnational identity. Deriving from Bhaba's concept of cultural hybridization and the 'unhome,' this paper attempts to analyze the challenges Nazneen faced as an immigrant woman in London. Being married to a man with a patriarchal mindset, and living in a society bound with extreme cultural and religious values, this paper also explores Nanzeen's struggle to find an agency in her process of emancipation. Superseding the binary construct of the West and Islamic feminist ideas, and arguing that it was Nazneen's newly gained knowledge that gave her a true agency, this paper also offers an alternative understanding of Nazneen's emancipation process by discussing theorists like Talal Asad, Asma Barlas and Saba Mahmood. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Despite various parallels in their work, the novels of the South African André Brink and Algerian writer Assia Djebar are rarely compared. This paper explores the similar quest for spaces that is found in a selection of works from these authors from opposing poles of the African continent. The paper demonstrates that in their texts, spaces are often created through language. The language used by characters to create spaces is also often spatially portrayed. It is therefore not only the quest for spaces but more specifically languages as spaces, or spaces as languages, or language-spaces that is investigated. The article moreover indicates that when using a postcolonial and poststructuralist framework to examine these language-spaces (as many literary critics tend to do), it might limit our analysis. A slight shift in Jacques Derrida's use of sous rature reading is suggested that possibly enriches the interpretation on spaces in Djebar's and Brink's work. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]