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“Elderly friends take lovers, rent studios,
plan trips to unpronounceable provinces.
Fifty makes the ironic wager
that his biographer will outlive him—”
From “Days of 1994: Alexandrians” by Marilyn Hacker, a poem in TYR’s archives, originally published in 1996:
“I am back in writing hell. As if each time I start writing, I have to go through the same hell again.” —Annie Ernaux
“In general, today’s AI systems perform extremely well until, often unexpectedly, they don’t.” Melanie Mitchell on AI’s jagged intelligence.
“If the twentieth century taught us anything, it was that total originality—creation ex nihilo—was not the prerequisite for radicality or profundity.” —Audrey Wollen
“Every new declaration emerges with fresh beef derived from an old authority.” —Kathryn Lofton
“Our story is old.
Telling it is not the only way
it can be told.”
From “Overture” by Brenda Shaughnessy, a poem in our summer issue.
“Our need is not for restoration but for transformation.” Samuel Moyn on America at 250.
“Drew was an expert at vanquishing uncomfortable thoughts before they became too overwhelming. That was a big part of why I had married him.” New fiction by Nell Freudenberger, in our summer issue.
Critics have called the twenty-first century the least original era since the printing press. But what’s so bad about repetition? Audrey Wollen on our supposed cultural void, in our summer issue.
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Melanie Mitchell probes the jagged landscape of AI and its uncertain future.
A poem by Marilyn Hacker: “Lunch at the end of the twentieth century: / death, like a hanger-on or a wannabe, / sits with us at the cluttered bistro /…
