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

Browse

Essays

Essays

Why I Write

The legendary cultural critic on finding a life’s work
Greil Marcus
December 11, 2023
Essays

Ucky Art

Judith Scott, Eva Hesse, and the visceral power of "texxture"
Lauren Elkin
November 6, 2023
A stack of old issues of The Yale Review. Courtesy Pentagram
The Moment

Again On the Slaughter

A response to the Israel-Hamas war
Peter Cole
November 2, 2023
A stack of old issues of The Yale Review. Courtesy Pentagram
The Moment

Speaking Unspeakable Words

A response to the Israel-Hamas war
Feisal G. Mohamed
November 2, 2023
Tribute

Louise Glück

Poet of October
Langdon Hammer
October 23, 2023
Tribute

Louise Glück

A genuine gift for friendship
Rachel Mannheimer
October 19, 2023
Tribute

Louise Glück

Making an art of conversation
Sam Huber
October 19, 2023
Tribute

Louise Glück

A poet you couldn’t hide from
Aria Aber
October 19, 2023
Tribute

Louise Glück

The poet who taught me to write books
Meghan O’Rourke
October 18, 2023
Books

Lou Reed Didn’t Want to Be King

A biography tries to pin the rocker down
Hannah Gold
October 16, 2023