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

Image of COVID-19 virus. Graphic by Bianca Ibarlucea.
Pandemic Files

Medicine’s Innovation Problem

The novel coronavirus exposes health care’s key weakness
Rena Xu
March 30, 2020
Image of COVID-19 virus. Graphic by Bianca Ibarlucea.
Pandemic Files

The Law of Salus Populi

Epidemics and the law
John Fabian Witt
March 30, 2020
Image of COVID-19 virus. Graphic by Bianca Ibarlucea.
Pandemic Files

The Lice

Vulnerability, contagion, and children
Miranda Featherstone
March 30, 2020
Image of COVID-19 virus. Graphic by Bianca Ibarlucea.
Pandemic Files

Cannon Fodder

A doctor on the front lines
Laura Kolbe
March 27, 2020
Image of COVID-19 virus. Graphic by Bianca Ibarlucea.
Pandemic Files

There’s a Sickness Outside

A doctor reflects on how dread and anxiety can become their own pandemic
Nitin Ahuja
March 27, 2020
Fine art of a woman bathing
Essays

A Common Seagull

On making art and mourning
Sheila Heti
January 1, 2020
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Essays

Broken Doll

A daughter’s suicide in another country
Carlos Manuel Álvarez
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Rahul Bery
January 1, 2020
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Essays

Changing My Mind

On sources, revision, and order
Lydia Davis
January 1, 2020
A photo of the author's mother and brother in 1974
Essays

Ghosts in My Nursery

Mourning the brother I never knew
Miranda Featherstone
January 1, 2020
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Essays

In Centennial

The only ones left alive
Cathy Park Hong
January 1, 2020