writing
Can A.I. Writing Be More Than a Gimmick?
The new essay collection “Searches: Selfhood in the Digital Age,” by Vauhini Vara, opens with a transcript. “If I paste some writing here, can we talk about it?” Vara...
Neige Sinno Doesn’t Believe in Writing as Therapy
“Because for me too, when it comes down to it, the thing that’s most interesting is what’s going on in the perpetrator’s head.” So begins “Sad Tiger,” Neige Sinno’s...
Ali Smith’s Playful Dystopia
Recently, just before lunch with the Scottish author Ali Smith, at Moro, a beloved North African and Mediterranean place in London’s Exmouth Market, I locked myself out of my...
Writing as Transformation
It seems to me that I have wanted to write for the whole of my life. The intensity of this insistence, despite its implausibility, suggests an emotional, rather than...
What Does a Translator Do?
Jon Fosse’s “Septology,” the seven-novel sequence about art and God that helped win its author last year’s Nobel Prize in Literature, stars two men and a dog. The men...
Now pardoned, Hunter Biden looks at future: Writing? Podcasting? ‘Healing,’ says friend
Hunter Biden was in an increasingly perilous position.After Donald Trump defeated Kamala Harris in the presidential election, it was clear that some of his most vociferous critics were poised...
Dorothy Parker and the Art of the Literary Takedown
When I think of Dorothy Parker’s hangovers, and I do, the image that comes to mind is that of the U.S.S. Arizona. A sunken battleship resting at the bottom...
What Kind of Writer Is ChatGPT?
Last spring, a graduate student in social anthropology—let’s call him Chris—sat down at his laptop and asked ChatGPT for help with a writing assignment. He pasted a few thousand...
AI in the Writing Classroom: Professor, Beware | National Review
Generative artificial intelligence has no role in the walled garden of teaching a student how to write. Source link
The Dark Side of Writing in the Social-Media Age | National Review
After a burst of online attention over a recent piece, I wanted to throw my phone into the Thames, change my name, and go live in an igloo. ...
