In Alexander Weinstein’s short story “Children of the New World,” readers meet a couple mourning the cruelest loss, that of their children, though we are made to question that loss from the very beginning. “They weren’t real” they reassure each other (83) as they go about the mundane task of preparing dinner. It’s quickly clear […]

Summer 2020. It likely won’t be one many of us will look back on fondly, that’s for sure. For me, it was a litany of disappointment:

Just to be provocative in my opener here, I want to share with you a little news about our robot overlords: they test better at reading comprehension than us humans.

Is it any surprise that a quick search for “tl;dr cat” turns up multiple adorbs? Like this:

“Is this the new normal we want” (Naomi Baron, Words Onscreen, 235)

Let me start with a personal aside…