What happens to a young scientist whose primary mentor is an artificial intelligence? The post Victor Frankenstein, ABD appeared first on Public Books.

What does it mean to abandon a sentient human that you have brought into the world? Del Toro doesn't answer. The post Frankenstein’s Hideous Progeny appeared first on Public Books.

In Going West, Maurice Gee considers national identity, provincialism, and the difficulty of creating an authentic cultural voice in a geographically isolated country. The post B-Sides: Maurice Gee’s “Going West” appeared first on Public

“The essays ChatGPT produced in mere seconds are quite plausible as the last-minute work of a rushed undergraduate.” The post AI=B+ appeared first on Public Books.

Beyond the existential and metaphysical anxiety it provokes, nothingness also constitutes an ontological opening: it compels societies to produce symbolic and cultural responses to ward off the fear of chaos. The post “No Future” Lexicon:

The National Security Strategy of the United States of America may have its longest life as a particularly vivid example of the ways in which bad faith will always manifest in terrible prose. The

Have the funds that might have trained the next generation of scholars at the nation’s first research university have been blown on ostentatious new buildings? The post The Misuses of the University appeared first

To hear him speak was to feel how literature can still shape a life; how beauty, thought, and feeling can move us forward together. The post XOXO, Ricardo Ortiz (1961–2025) appeared first on Public