Essays

Essays

Toni Morrison’s Native Figures

A new reading of race in her novels
Namwali Serpell
Folio

How LLMs Set My Fiction Free

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

My AI Boyfriend

A cynic enters the data pool
Lauren Oyler
Folio

Chasing Alice

The life and death of a chatbot
Sheila Heti
Folio

Donna Haraway’s Utopian Promise

We were supposed to become feminist cyborgs. Instead, we got ChatGPT.
Meghan O’Gieblyn
Folio

Jagged Intelligence

The dangerous unknowns at the heart of LLMs
Melanie Mitchell

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Essays

Essays

Ode to Babel

The ecstasy of Michael K. Williams
Roger Reeves
March 27, 2023
The Moment

Throwing Punches in a Dive Bar

Three years into the pandemic, what does care look like?
Jordan Kisner
March 27, 2023
Essays

You Were the Bird

Petite Maman and the axis between mother and daughter
Georgia Cloepfil
March 27, 2023
Essays

A Moral Education

In praise of filth
Garth Greenwell
March 20, 2023
Tribute

Charles Simic

Remembering a great poet and friend
Meghan O’Rourke
January 13, 2023
Annotating the Archives

Eliot Among the Ruins

The Waste Land remains prophetic, but what did it foretell?
Langdon Hammer
December 12, 2022
Essays

A Faceless Compass

Johannesburg’s haunted streets
Ivan Vladislavić
December 6, 2022
Essays

Bottle Torches

A fantasia on Nari Ward
Ishion Hutchinson
December 6, 2022
Essays

Case Studies

A critic tracks herself
Margo Jefferson
December 6, 2022
Essays

Reclaiming Tituba

The real story behind Arthur Miller's character
Winsome Pinnock
December 6, 2022