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“It’s the only life I’ve ever dreamed of. I know deep down that I don’t aspire to be a university professor.” Annie Ernaux on being a writer.
“The current methods we use to test these systems’ capabilities are, at best, deeply flawed.” Melanie Mitchell on benchmarks for LLMs and what they miss, in our AI folio.
“We have language; the computers have language. Our language is connected to experience. Computers have context. The delta between experience and context is significant.” —Ayad Akhtar
“Alone in my cabin for weeks,
I long to be touched
by the sun.”
—Natasha Rao, “In Spring”
Our summer issue is available online and in print now. Inside: journal entries from Annie Ernaux, new fiction by Nell Freudenberger, an installment of Objects of Desire by Sarah Thankam Mathews, poems by Patricia Lockwood and Brenda Shaughnessy, and more.
“What if instead of assuming the powers of the earth, instead of grabbing, buying, bombing, and bullying, Americans abided them?” —Kathryn Lofton
“Perhaps every image is a nanoscopic prayer: Let us keep something of the present in the future.” Sarah Thankam Mathews on her trove of screenshots.
“My perspective is history logged, mushy and inexact, my style is patchworked and gleaned, my analysis makes most sense mapped as doodled spirals.” —Audrey Wollen
“Seeing is not believing,
only believing is believing.”
—Brenda Shaughnessy, “Overture”
“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:
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Never-before-seen journal entries spanning forty years of Annie Ernaux’s life.
Ayad Akhtar, Daniel Kehlmann, and Meghan O’Rourke discuss the creative and social ramifications of the LLM era, from changes in our cognition to shifting…
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 /…
