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What Was AI?

Trying to keep up in the age of LLMs
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Is This Real?

Five writers on the line between fact and fiction
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The Analytic Lyric

Nine poets in conversation with psychoanalysis

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The Waste Land at 100

Selections from the archives
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Ownership: An Introduction

Nine writers on the complexities of property
Eula Biss
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The Black Shape Slumped in a Chair

Kerry James Marshall and the Taliesin murders
Aisha Sabatini Sloan
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More Joy and Less Cool

What it means to be a skater
José Vadi
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Resisting Category

A folio of Spanish-language fiction in translation
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Poems on the Divine

Nine poets at the edge of the signifiable
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The Stakes of Dictee

An introduction to a famously difficult work
Ken Chen
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Hidden Words

Searching for meaning in a rubber stamp
Uljana Wolf
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The Weight of Memory

Honoring my dear friend
Yong Soon Min
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Dictee at Forty

The life and legacy of Theresa Hak Kyung Cha
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Poems of Lovesickness

Nine poets on eros and longing
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Criticism and Truth

Three scholars respond to Jonathan Kramnick's book

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A Lost Future for the Middle East

Religious pluralism was a possibility after the Ottoman Empire. European colonialism changed that.
Ussama Makdisi
October 22, 2024
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Facing America’s Social Crisis

The United States is at a turning point in economic policy. What happens next is crucial.
Nicholas Mulder
October 22, 2024
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History Is Repeating Itself in Ukraine

Cycles of nationalism have existed for centuries. What do they reveal?
Andreas Wimmer
October 22, 2024
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How the Radical Right Remade Nationalism

What happens when the central goal of politics becomes preserving national identity?
Suzanne Schneider
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The Living Practice of Criticism

A reply to my respondents
Jonathan Kramnick
June 17, 2024
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The Real World of Reading

A response to Jonathan Kramnick’s Criticism and Truth
Ankhi Mukherjee
June 17, 2024
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The Rhapsodic Critic

A response to Jonathan Kramnick’s Criticism and Truth
Elaine Scarry
June 17, 2024
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Writing for the Reader

A response to Jonathan Kramnick’s Criticism and Truth
Paul Saint-Amour
June 17, 2024
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