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

A black-and-white photo of Patricia Highsmith smoking at her kitchen table in Tegna, Switzerland
Memoir

The Talented Ms. Highsmith

I worked for the novelist in her final months. I thought she wanted to kill me.
Elena Gosalvez Blanco
June 9, 2025
A portrait of Edmund White wearing a navy-blue sweater and standing on a red-staired NYC stoop with a wrought-iron railing
Tribute

Edmund White

My friend in literature, laughter, and grief
Yiyun Li
June 6, 2025
Essays

The Ragpicker's Way

Among scraps and ruins, an artist gathers a different kind of archive
Edmund de Waal
May 13, 2025
Objects of Desire

Rubber Bands

How can we extend love?
Catherine Barnett
May 6, 2025
The Moment

The Post-Francis Church

Catholicism has long wrestled with tradition and modernity. Will the late pope’s legacy offer a way forward?
Jack Hanson
April 29, 2025
Black and white photograph of lecture hall desks in a semi-circle
The Moment

A View from Here

Trump's attacks on higher education and the work of a little magazine
Meghan O’Rourke
April 23, 2025
Essays

A Unified Theory of the Handbag

Was an accessory the secret to evolution?
Audrey Wollen
March 11, 2025
The Moment

Reading During a Genocide

What Etel Adnan's novel taught me
Isabella Hammad
March 11, 2025
Memoir

Scenes from Childhood

The unseen world of the great playwright
Adrienne Kennedy
March 11, 2025
Essays

The Broken Cadillac

When you wish you could refuse an inheritance
Jennifer Stock
March 11, 2025