Omnivore
Issues in advanced artificial intelligence
Luciano Floridi (Oxford): What the Near Future of Artificial Intelligence Could Be. Nick Bostrom (Oxford): Ethical Issues in Advanced Artificial Intelligence. From Vox, Kelsey Piper on the AI breakthrough that won the “Nobel Prize of computing”: Three researchers helped take deep learning mainstream — and transformed the world; how will AI change our lives? Experts can’t agree — and that could be a problem; and some AI just shouldn’t exist: Attempts to “fix” biased AI can actually harm black,
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Paper Trail
Three months before technology news site The Markup’s expected launch, editor in chief Julia Angwin has been let go from the Craig Newmark–funded project that she helped found with Sue Gardner and Jeff Larson. Angwin says that she was pushed out by Gardner after she refused to “change the site’s mission to ‘one based on …Syllabi
Learning from Beyoncé
Kevin AllredBeyoncé Knowles-Carter makes perfect pop songs that also lend themselves to nuanced discussion of race, gender, sexuality, class, feminism, social justice, and so much more. For the past decade, I have …- Love Letters Kaitlyn Tiffany
- Outrageous Clarity: The Fictions of Amélie Nothomb Charlotte Shane
- The Roots of the Alt-right Mike Wendling
Daily Review
You Better Work
If I see Joan Didion’s packing list on Instagram one more time, I’m going to scream. And then I am absolutely going to click. We all have our baggage, we just want to know how to organize it. What if a streamlined suitcase is the missing link, the unheralded key to … 
Interviews
T Kira Madden
T Kira Madden grew up queer and biracial in Boca Raton, Florida, the only child of parents battling drug and alcohol addictions, In her widely-lauded debut memoir, Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls, she details her coming-of-age and her search, admist such volatile circumstances, for connection and stability, She often finds those things—or semblances of them—in unlikely places.
…- “I still believe in the power of words to change culture.” That’s Lin Farley, a writer …
- It begins with a nuclear holocaust unleashed by a former reality-TV star aboard an …
- “I never pretended to be an expert on millennials,” writes Bret Easton Ellis halfway …
- GENIUS IS GENIUS in part because it defies narrative. Tall tales are spun to make …
- The polymath Dick Higgins once wrote that a book is “the container of a provocation.” …
- In her new book, Women’s Work, celebrated war correspondent Megan K. Stack remembers …
- Even in a decade not wanting for political weirdness, one of the weirder aspects of …
- We’ve had half a century with The Second Sex, The Dialectic of Sex, Sexual Politics, …
- AS CLIMATE CHANGE ENCROACHES, things will get worse. Much worse. And David Wallace-Wells, …
- Fifty pages into this novel—Susan Choi’s fifth—I was ready to write about it. I …
- The protagonist of the linked short stories in Bryan Washington’s debut collection, …
Reviews
Excerpt
A Writer for Our Time
Joshua Sperling
In the mid 1970s John Berger began a new life—and a new family—in a small mountain village outside Geneva in the Haute-Savoie. He was close to fifty. At first he and Beverly Bancroft did not live in the village of Quincy itself, but up the road in an old farmhouse.
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