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

Psychotherapy and Moral Culture: A Psychiatrist’s Field Report

Fred Bloom
March 1, 1977
Detail of a microchip
Essays

Creativity, Poetic Language, and the Computer

What's distinctly human about writing a poem?
Marie Borroff
June 1, 1971
From the Archives

Reminiscences of Thomas Mann

Konrad Kellen
March 1, 1965
From the Archives

Politics and Technology

Edward T. Chase
April 1, 1963
From the Archives

Prelude to Independence

Dean Acheson
July 1, 1959
An old photograph of a churchyard cemetery. Courtesy The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles.
Essays

A Journal of the Plague

The 1918 Influenza
Francis Russell
December 1, 1958
From the Archives

The First Psychoanalyst

Erik H. Erikson
August 1, 1956
From the Archives

Legislative-Executive Relations

Dean Acheson
June 1, 1956
From the Archives

Walden—1954

E. B. White
September 1, 1954
From the Archives

G.B.S.—Mankind’s Friend

Thomas Mann
March 1, 1951