AI and the End of the Human Writer

If a computer can write like a person, what does that say about the nature of our own creativity?

By Samanth Subramanian

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The Liberating Frankness of the Divorce Memoir

New books from Leslie Jamison and Lyz Lenz exude the glow of hard-won independence.

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Civil War’s Mystifying Vision of American Meltdown

Alex Garland’s film is a fascinatingly empty meditation on journalism and our political divides.

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Inside the Complicated World of Human Smuggling

Jason De León’s ambitious ethnography paints human smugglers not as inhuman villains but as individuals navigating an inhuman system.

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**Reading Imagined Communities Amid a Resurgence of Nationalism**

What Benedict Anderson’s classic account of nationalism’s origins misses about today’s world.

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L.A. Doesn’t Have a Homelessness Crisis. It’s a Crisis of Abandonment.

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