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Asian Mothers, Bad Feelings: Notes on An All-conquering Stereotype
“A certain image of the tiger mom— strict, cold and demanding—is ubiquitous in popular culture. Why?”
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Chuck Palahniuk Is Not Who You Think He Is
“Twenty-six books in, the author has made a career of writing about loners, misfits, and deviants. But the man behind these controversial and transgressive fictions is full of surprises.”
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Kingdom of Funga: A Mycelial Reading List on a Strange and Surreal World Around Us
Seven stories celebrating the mystery and power of fungi.
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The Great Fiction of AI
Can artificial intelligence write novels? Josh Dzieza looks at how independent authors have begun to experiment with AI writing programs like Sudowrite and Jasper to write their stories faster. The piece explores questions around ethics and authorship, and its design is A+. It requires a strange degree of sympathy with the machine, thinking about the […]
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The First Tomato to Know Everything
“On gray literature and Webster’s Timeline History books.”
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Translator’s Notes
“In this personal essay, translator Nathan Dize discovers striking links between the fiction he translates and his own family history.”
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One Last Run
“A dispatch from the final Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, where the drinks were good, and the nature documentaries were, for the most part, sad.”
