“From the ancient Nordic forest fairies and the 15th-Century Mélusine legend to Shakespeare’s Midsummer Night’s Dream, faerie folklore is full of deception and seduction.”
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The A.I. Romance Factory
“Genre fiction publisher Inkitt has influential backers and a vision for infinitely customizable A.I.-driven content. What would be left for the human creators?”
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George Saunders Says Ditching These Three Delusions Can Save You
“He’s as flawed a human being as anyone else, one who’s still wrestling with questions about how best to move through life with a modicum of grace and compassion.”
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The American Novel Has a Major Problem With Fat People
“Why does fiction do such a bad job of portraying fat characters?”
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Murderbot, She Wrote
“Martha Wells created one of the most iconic characters in 21st-century science fiction: Murderbot, reluctant savior of humanity. Then she faced an existential threat of her own.”
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Our Narrative Prison
“The three-act ‘hero’s journey’ has long been the most prominent kind of story. What other tales are there to tell?”
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Recognizing the Stranger
“What in fiction is enjoyable and beautiful is often terrifying in real life.”
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Second and Long
“Why did James Whitehead—poet, fiction writer, and onetime college football player—fail to complete a successor to his celebrated first novel?”
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From Silicon to Slime
“Claire L. Evans on imagination as a form of computation, and the endless entanglement of our biological reality.”
