What Barbara Kingsolver Is Reading
Barbara Kingsolver’s books have been everywhere since the nineties: your neighbor’s bookshelf, your college lounge, your grandmother’s coffee…
How Americans Caught Gold Fever Again
“I mean, this is all bullshit,” Slobodian, who teaches at Boston University, told me. “But the ‘great replacement’…
Why Are People Injecting Themselves with Peptides?
Next, Koniver led me to the clinic’s I.V.-infusion room, where he offered me a poke bowl for lunch.…
Sam Altman May Control Our Future—Can He Be Trusted?
Altman continued touting OpenAI’s commitment to safety, especially when potential recruits were within earshot. In late 2022, four…
Love in the Time of A.I. Companions
“Probably all in the same place,” her friend offered, cheerily. A few minutes later, Brookins arrived in a…
Deepfaking Orson Welles’s Mangled Masterpiece
On set, a young director named Victor Velle was rehearsing the train-station scene with the actors playing George…
Denmark Is Sick of Being Bullied by Trump
When the King visited Greenland in April—looking jaunty and at ease while cruising on a fjord with the…
What if Readers Like A.I.-Generated Fiction?
After feeding Han’s writing into GPT-4o, Chakrabarty fine-tuned fresh versions of the model on the work of twenty-nine…
What My A.I. Boyfriends Think of Me
In today’s edition: Susan B. Glasser on the President’s response to the killing of Charlie Kirk. And Patricia…
The Family Fallout of DNA Surprises
Lily Wood is forty-three years old but considers April 9, 2019, to be her “rebirth day.” That was…
Audiobooks to Save Your Road Trip
—Leo Lasdun, editorial production associate “Brideshead Revisited,” by Evelyn Waugh, narrated by Jeremy Irons Jeremy Irons puts his…