Artificial Women: Sex Dolls, Robot Caregivers, and More Facsimile Females by Julie Wosk IT SEEMS NO coincidence that Yorgos Lanthimos’s cinematic rendition of Alasdair Gray’s 1992 novel Poor Things , released at the end of 2023, would come at a time of obsessive commentary about the possibilities and threats of AI. While Lanthimos’s movie has […]
With her new biography about Joni Mitchell, NPR music critic Ann Powers says she wanted to challenge the idea that there’s only one definitive story of a life. June 10, 2024 Early on, Ann Powers wasn’t a fan of Joni Mitchell. The music critic for NPR is renowned for writing about female artists such as […]
Photo by Dylan Sauerwein on Unsplash Palestinian American writer and poet Hala Alyan’s latest poetry collection is an inventive play with language and form as she writes into grief, infertility and a familial legacy fraught with the trauma of displacement and exile. Hala is warm when our call first connects and I launch into a […]
The reason to come to Rachel Cusk’s novels has never been plot. PARADE , by Rachel Cusk Rachel Cusk, the author of the autobiographical Outline trilogy of novels, has written so well for so long that it’s almost a relief to discover that her new novel, “Parade,” is skippable for all but her most devoted […]
