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“I become aware that I have always felt that my life was being written somewhere just by living.” —Annie Ernaux
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“It is hard not to hear the claims of our missing originality as a kind of nostalgia in its own right, hearkening back to a semi-mythical past when artists were brave and fun, rent was cheap, and everything was new and meaningful.” —Audrey Wollen
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Toni Morrison liked “to work with, to fret, the cliché,” and claimed her stories came to her “as clichés. A cliché is a cliché because it’s worthwhile.”
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“The religion of liberty is among the strongest religions in recorded history.” Kathryn Lofton on the Declaration of Independence as scripture, in our new issue.
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“America, poised on the brink of something, knows it cannot go back to the future.” Samuel Moyn on the semiquincentennial.
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“My interest in etymology was something Drew found charming when we met, less so eighteen years later. I felt the same about the beautiful physical spaces he created . . . which eventually began to feel controlling.” —Nell Freudenberger
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“The success of language-trained AI models has encouraged this belief that intelligence, in a kind of pristine and rational form, is something that can be sifted away from the messy world of bodies, emotions, and caring.” —Melanie Mitchell
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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.
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“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
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“Alone in my cabin for weeks,
I long to be touched
by the sun.”
—Natasha Rao, “In Spring”
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“The history of religions demonstrates that scriptures accrue sacrality by their survival of mishandling. They are poked and prodded and cut up and misquoted because humans still have a need for those words in their worlds.” —Kathryn Lofton
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“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
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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.
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“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.
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“Seeing is not believing,
only believing is believing.”
—Brenda Shaughnessy, “Overture”
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“What if instead of assuming the powers of the earth, instead of grabbing, buying, bombing, and bullying, Americans abided them?” —Kathryn Lofton
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“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.
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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: yalereview.org/article/maril…
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“Now that academic reviewers often struggle to tell the difference between human- and machine-generated prose, it’s hard to see how the ‘confusion of boundaries’ that Haraway advocated has any meaning at all.” —Meghan O’Gieblyn
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“And why haven’t any of us
Seen a round diamond?
Only one in the world and it is
The world, holding a drink in its hand.”
From “Dorabella,” a poem by Patricia Lockwood in our AI folio.
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