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

Germany and the Germans

Thomas Mann
December 1, 1946
Blue stamps from WWII ration book
Essays

Note on the Home Front

I shall never forget that first winter of gasoline rationing
Eve Riehle
September 1, 1945
A photograph of a London street during WWII.
Essays

After a Visit to England

London during the Blitz
Thornton Wilder
September 1, 1941
From the Archives

Tides of American Politics

Arthur M. Schlesinger Sr.
December 1, 1939
From the Archives

Two Antiquaries: Walpole and Cole

Virginia Woolf
March 1, 1939
From the Archives

Address at the Dedication of the Thomas Mann Collection at Yale University

Thomas Mann
June 1, 1938
From the Archives

Afterthoughts on Constitutions

Carl Becker
March 1, 1938
From the Archives

A Conversation About Art

Virginia Woolf
September 1, 1934
From the Archives

Hitler’s National Socialism

Leon Trotsky
December 1, 1933
From the Archives

The Novels of Turgenev

Virginia Woolf
December 1, 1933