Essays

Toni Morrison’s Native Figures

A new reading of race in her novels

Namwali Serpell

How LLMs Set My Fiction Free

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

Christopher Sorrentino

My AI Boyfriend

A cynic enters the data pool

Lauren Oyler

Chasing Alice

The life and death of a chatbot

Sheila Heti

Donna Haraway’s Utopian Promise

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

Meghan O’Gieblyn

Jagged Intelligence

The dangerous unknowns at the heart of LLMs

Melanie Mitchell

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Essays

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Leaving Yale for the Coronavirus Epicenter

I was afraid I was losing my future. Now I'm afraid of losing my family.

Eric O’Keefe-Krebs

April 20, 2020

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Welcome to Zoom University

The college experience, through a screen

Sean Lynch

April 20, 2020

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Sheltering in a Toxic Place

When the home itself can kill

Emmeline Clein

April 13, 2020

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The White String

Dreams of connection in quarantine

Brandon Shimoda

April 13, 2020

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Sirenland

The crisis in New York City

Briallen Hopper

April 8, 2020

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Pandemic Inequality

The two worlds of social distancing

Octávio Luiz Motta Ferraz

April 3, 2020

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Passing through Danger

Finding words for this pandemic in Inupiaq

Joan Naviyuk Kane

April 3, 2020

Traffic in smog

Driving Us to Despair

Soul-killing and racist, the American commute is deeply wrong

Jess Row

April 1, 2020

Cityscape

Copying & Lying

From For Now

Eileen Myles

April 1, 2020

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Is This Tyranny?

How losing the right to vote changed my understanding of America

Feisal G. Mohamed

April 1, 2020

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