When does the world need your words, and when does it need your action? Should you go to that organizing meeting or meet your deadline? Steinem lived these tensions, wrestling with them and, sometimes, writing about them.” Maggie Doherty on Gloria Steinem’s life in writing and activism. | The New Republic What does a MrBeast/James Patterson collaboration look like? Strange, and bad, but nevertheless: a book! | Slate Is the internet really killing literature, or has it expanded it? Aarthi Vadde explores the potential of the literary web. | Los Angeles Review of Books Dónal Gill wonders: could Jonathan Swift be the antidote to generative AI? | The Dial “Moby-Dick, from the moment the pale Usher pops up, frames itself with—or, indeed, as—a parable of document supply, of transformation of the natural world’s bounty into quartos, folios, lexicons, and, of course, novels.” Tom McCarthy on Melville and the white page. | The Yale Review Anthropic actually wants to “destructively scan” as many books as possible, it turns out. | The New Yorker |
