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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The Moment

On Rereading

Remaking the world
Victor Brombert
May 19, 2021
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My Year of Stalking Rachel

The quest to see without being seen
Becca Rothfeld
May 19, 2021
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Essays

The Wrong Daddy

Morrissey and the cult of the wounded white male
Jeremy Atherton Lin
May 19, 2021
The author with her sister in childhood.
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There I Almost Am

On envy and twinship
Jean Garnett
May 19, 2021
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We Have a Body

The deaths of patients—and colleagues
Suzanne Koven
May 19, 2021
Adam Zagajewski. Courtesy Donostia Kultura
Tribute

Adam Zagajewski

Remembering a poet of the human soul
Ilya Kaminsky
May 6, 2021
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Essays

The Wild, Sublime Body

Learning how to be human
Melissa Febos
March 10, 2021
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Essays

Against Abdicating Power to Big Tech

We can’t rely on Big Tech to reign over online speech
Claire Bond Potter
February 1, 2021
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Pandemic Files

My Summer of Julien Gracq

Reading a French novelist’s examination of liminal space in a plague year
Seth Lerer
January 11, 2021
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Essays

Notes Upon Arrival

A diary of immigration and lost love
Bhanu Kapil
December 1, 2020