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Our June 25 issue—the University Press Issue—is now online, with Dan Chiasson on writing away from AI, Meghan O’Gieblyn on raising AI, Michael Gorra on the task of the agent, Geoffrey Wheatcroft on Labour’s trials, Andrew Katzenstein on loving the Mets, Erin Maglaque on the sexual libertines of the Inquisition, Madeleine Schwartz on the purloined papyrus, Gary Saul Morton on Mikhail Bakhtin, Andrew Arsan on democracy and the Middle East, Joe Dunthorne on the New York School poets, Fintan O’Toole on the president’s greatness, poems by Sandra Lim and D. Nurse, and much more.

Dan Chiasson
Think for Yourself

One of the most dehumanizing effects of AI is the short cuts it offers through the gaps and impasses intrinsic to the act of writing.

Meghan O’Gieblyn
‘We Did Our Best!’

Metaphors of parenting have defined our understanding of AI, but lately the parent-child relationship between creator and machine is becoming reversed.

Geoffrey Wheatcroft
Labour’s Love Lost

With Keir Starmer’s and his party’s future in doubt after local elections in May, there is a paucity of talent among his rivals.

Erin Maglaque
Their Own Private Genesis

What if Augustine’s idea of original sin was wrong? Testimony from the Inquisition reveals freethinkers using their sexual experience to dispute the reign of shame and otherwise critique Church doctrine.

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Jonathan Lethem
Confessions of a Fair-Weather Knicks Fan

Blogging the NBA Finals

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