the weekend essay

What if Readers Like A.I.-Generated Fiction?

December 20, 2025

[ad_1] After feeding Han’s writing into GPT-4o, Chakrabarty fine-tuned fresh versions of the model on the work of twenty-nine other authors, including a close college friend of mine, Tony Tulathimutte....

Always Inadequate

August 16, 2025

[ad_1] In the late nineteen-sixties I lived for a year, with my then husband, in the middle of an apple orchard in northern New Mexico, some miles from the glorious...

Why I Broke Up with New York

May 5, 2025

[ad_1] All this may seem to imply some deeper judgment about the city—that I think it’s wanton and unregulated, a “Where’s Waldo?” of Boschian perversion. But I will always defend...