THE YALE REVIEW (March 11, 2025): The latest issue features a central folio, “What Was AI?,” exploring artificial intelligence through essays from Lauren Oyler, Christopher Sorrentino, and Melanie Mitchell. The issue also includes new memoirs and essays from Annie Ernaux and Namwali Serpell, alongside a visual portfolio by Vera Molnár.

Jagged Intelligence

The dangerous unknowns at the heart of LLMs by Melanie Mitchell

Reading the Declaration of Independence as Holy Text

How the American creed emerged—and evolved—over 250 years by Kathryn Lofton

Is the Twenty-First Century a Creative Void?

Critics mourn a bygone cultural era. But nostalgia for the new isn’t new by Audrey Wollen

The Birthday Party No One Wants

Why Americans aren’t celebrating the semiquincentennial by Samuel Moyn

I am back in writing hell. As if each time I start writing, I have to go through the same hell again. Annie Ernaux Unpublished journal entries