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“I have so little sense of living what I’m living while I live it that I have to relive it to finally live it.” —Annie Ernaux
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.
We were supposed to become feminist cyborgs. Instead, we got ChatGPT. Meghan O’Gieblyn on how a vision of the technological future failed, in our summer issue.
“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.
“Frog sacs inflate
and my own throat bubbles
with want.”
From “In Spring” by Natasha Rao, a poem in our summer issue.
“A creed is most comforting when its truth seems furthest away.” In our summer issue, Kathryn Lofton reads the Declaration of Independence as a religious text.
“I think the idea of any kind of art is profoundly connected to the idea that a human being is speaking to me.” Daniel Kehlmann, in conversation on AI and writing, in our summer issue.
“We knew
what awaited us, even though
in the scope of things
it rarely mattered”
From Jill Bialosky’s “The Nature of Things,” a poem in our summer issue.
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