Our July 24 issue is now online, with Joyce Carol Oates on serial killers and toxic metals, Fintan O’Toole on Trump’s domestic army, David Shulman on the second Nakba, Regina Marler on the Brothers Grimm, Michelle Nijhuis on what we save, Peter Canby on the murder of a priest, Ruth Bernard Yeazell on Albert Barnes’s art sense, Ian Johnson on Xi père, Lola Seaton on Sheila Heti’s deceptive ease, James Gleick on AI nonsense, poems by Milan Děžinský and Devon Walker-Figueroa, and much more.

James Gleick
The Parrot in the Machine

The artificial intelligence industry depends on plagiarism, mimicry, and exploited labor, not intelligence.

David Shulman
Netanyahu’s War

Engineering a second Nakba and annexing the occupied territories are integral parts of Netanyahu’s war against the State of Israel’s democratic institutions, its social solidarity, and above all the rule of law.

Joyce Carol Oates
Death in the Air

In Murderland, Caroline Fraser traces the correlations between rapacious industrial pollution and sadistic serial killers.

Lola Seaton
Incorrigible Nudity

The illusion of effortlessness is a major source of the pleasure of Sheila Heti’s work: it makes us feel as though we could capture the world as easily.

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David Cole
Universities: Know Your Rights!

Most recently in a flimsy report on antisemitism at Harvard, the Trump administration has been weaponizing discrimination claims to remake the country’s universities. How can they fight back?

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