“A magazine’s response to accusations of publishing AI-generated fiction points to a new phase in the struggle to keep literature human.”
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Transference in the Afternoon
“I felt I was looking at something remarkable: a real-time record of the encounter between a patient and a therapist. It was an encounter that started off well before veering profoundly off course.”
The Secret Pattern
“Filtered only through headlines, China had become a political entity more than a physical place where I had grown up, where half of my family still lived.”
‘Actually Really Sacred’: A George Saunders Reading List
Nine essays and interviews from literature’s favorite laureate of compassion.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
This week’s stories include techno, New Zealand, relationships, background music and doodles.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
In this edition: Twin Cities resistance, psychedelic self-reinvention, guardians of the ranch, a file of fragments, and Pantone’s political white.
Cairo Song
“I could no longer bear to live within a system that is actively rigged against people, against life, against human flourishing.”
My Time Machine
“The rules of historians are clear: put things in context, be dispassionate, and most of all, never say ‘we’ when you talk about the past.”

