Letters & Reading

Literary criticism, book reviews, writers and writing, the life of the mind.

A young woman’s hand reaches past a silver crucifix to grasp an herbal charm on a dark bedside table. (AI-generated image)

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The Devil You Know

Satan, party of one

An AI-generated image of a writer pausing over manuscript pages as the shadow of a mechanical hand falls across his work.

Letters & Reading

Gaslighting Ourselves

If you let AI change the way you write, the machines win.