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Toni Morrison’s Native Figures

A new reading of race in her novels

The Birthday Party No One Wants

Why Americans aren't celebrating the semiquincentennial


My Screenshots

In search of lost memes

Reading the Declaration of Independence as Holy Text

How the American creed emerged—and evolved—over 250 years
Louise Lawler’s yellowy dye-destruction print of Warhol’s “Round Marilyn”

Is the Twenty-First Century a Creative Void?

Critics mourn a bygone cultural era. But nostalgia for the new isn't new.

I am back in writing hell. As if each time I start writing, I have to go through the same hell again.

Annie Ernaux Unpublished journal entries

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Donna Haraway’s Utopian Promise

We were supposed to become feminist cyborgs. Instead, we got ChatGPT.

AI and the Future of Writing

A roundtable of authors discuss the ramifications for art—and life.

How LLMs Set My Fiction Free

Writing no longer felt like experimenting. AI made it fun again.

Jagged Intelligence

The dangerous unknowns at the heart of LLMs

My AI Boyfriend

A cynic enters the data pool

Chasing Alice

The life and death of a chatbot

Summer 2026

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My Mother’s Letters

Vera Molnar’s computer drawings mimic a familiar hand

The Valley


The Kissing Booth


Elegy

In Spring

Arundhati Roy

The author on how making sense of violence made her a writer

David Szalay

The author of Flesh on moral murkiness, physical agency, and why the body knows things the mind doesn't

Neige Sinno

The writer on Sad Tiger and the stories we live by