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

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Essays

Days of 1952

On the rapture of experiencing art in solitude
James Merrill
April 1, 1992
From the Archives

Fiction in Review

Marilynne Robinson
April 1, 1992
From the Archives

From My Cornell Notebooks

Charles Simic
April 1, 1992
From the Archives

The Religion-Making Imagination of Joseph Smith

Harold Bloom
April 1, 1992
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From the Archives

Short Talks

Anne Carson
July 1, 1991
From the Archives

"The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"

James Merrill
December 1, 1989
From the Archives

The First Eighteen Lines of The Waste Land

Anthony Hecht
December 1, 1989
From the Archives

Psychology and Afro-American Biography

Arnold Rampersad
August 1, 1989
From the Archives

A Legend in My Life

My memories of the incomparable Greta Garbo
Vincent Price
July 1, 1988
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From the Archives

Making Contact

Encounters with readers
Annie Dillard
July 1, 1988