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Memoir

Writing

Unpublished journal entries
Annie Ernaux
Objects of Desire

My Screenshots

In search of lost memes
Sarah Thankam Mathews
The Moment

The Birthday Party No One Wants

Why Americans aren't celebrating the semiquincentennial
Samuel Moyn
Essays

The End of Books

What happened when a dumpster arrived behind my university's library
Sheila Liming
Ideas

Reading the Declaration of Independence as Holy Text

How the American creed emerged—and evolved—over 250 years
Kathryn Lofton
Essays

Toni Morrison’s Native Figures

A new reading of race in her novels
Namwali Serpell

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Nonfiction

Folio

Chasing Alice

The life and death of a chatbot
Sheila Heti
June 8, 2026
Folio

How LLMs Set My Fiction Free

Writing no longer felt like experimenting. AI made it fun again.
Christopher Sorrentino
June 8, 2026
Louise Lawler’s yellowy dye-destruction print of Warhol’s “Round Marilyn”
Books

Is the Twenty-First Century a Creative Void?

Critics mourn a bygone cultural era. But nostalgia for the new isn't new.
Audrey Wollen
June 8, 2026
Folio

Jagged Intelligence

The dangerous unknowns at the heart of LLMs
Melanie Mitchell
June 8, 2026
Folio

My AI Boyfriend

A cynic enters the data pool
Lauren Oyler
June 8, 2026
Objects of Desire

My Screenshots

In search of lost memes
Sarah Thankam Mathews
June 8, 2026
Ideas

Reading the Declaration of Independence as Holy Text

How the American creed emerged—and evolved—over 250 years
Kathryn Lofton
June 8, 2026
The Moment

The Birthday Party No One Wants

Why Americans aren't celebrating the semiquincentennial
Samuel Moyn
June 8, 2026
Essays

Toni Morrison’s Native Figures

A new reading of race in her novels
Namwali Serpell
June 8, 2026
Memoir

Writing

Unpublished journal entries
Annie Ernaux
June 8, 2026