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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
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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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An old photo of baseball players
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Loss

When yearning is a pleasure
Sarah Manguso
January 1, 2020
Portrait of the author's mother
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Stereopticon

Twelve ways of looking at my mother
Emily Bernard
January 1, 2020
Portrait of J. D. McClatchy
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Still to Love

For J. D. McClatchy
Langdon Hammer
January 1, 2020
Obscured female form with words
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The Skin You’re In

On living in—and losing—a body
Molly McCully Brown
January 1, 2020
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Listening to the Provinces

A painter’s letters home
Shifra Sharlin
July 1, 2019
An image of an old coin.
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The Virtues and Vices of Speech

On truthfulness, deception, flattery, and more
Giovanni Gioviano Pontano
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G. W. Pigman III
July 1, 2019
A still image from film of a creature running through the woods who appears to look like Bigfoot.
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The Wild Man Within

Peter Matthiessen’s Bigfoot
Jeff Wheelwright
July 1, 2019
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I Harbor a Stillborn Scribe of the German Tongue in Me

On Germans and Jewishness
Peter Wortsman
May 13, 2019
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What We Leave

Stealing pants from a rockstar
Sara Schaff
April 15, 2019
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Cremation Society of Kentucky

A life in burned flesh
Raymond Abbott
April 8, 2019