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

From the Archives

Women's Rights: Unspeakable Issues in the Constitution

Nancy F. Cott
June 1, 1988
From the Archives

A. Philip Randolph

Remembering the civil rights leader and my friend of over four decades
Bayard Rustin
April 1, 1987
From the Archives

Retrospect: Poetry in Review

Penelope Laurans
December 1, 1985
A stack of old issues of The Yale Review. Courtesy Pentagram
From the Archives

Singing with the Fundamentalists

Annie Dillard
January 1, 1985
From the Archives

A Memoir of George Eliot

Soph’ia V. Kovalevskaia,
translated by Miriam Haskell Berlin
July 1, 1984
From the Archives

A Non-Euclidean View of California as a Cold Place to Be

Ursula K. Le Guin
December 1, 1983
From the Archives

The Thought of Movies

Stanley Cavell
January 1, 1983
From the Archives

Psychiatric Help 5¢: Psychoanalysis and the Psychotherapies of Liberation

Fred Bloom
and
Alice Bloom
April 1, 1979
From the Archives

Byron and Mr. Briggs

With an introduction by Edward A. Hungerford
Virginia Woolf
March 1, 1979
An abstract print by Jacob van Heemskerck.
Essays

Naming, Being, and Black Experience

Yale’s first Black professor on the presence or absence of names, their status and their scope.
Michael G. Cooke
December 1, 1977