https://amalianegreponti.substack.com/p/without-you-im-empty-inside
The Singularity is here. AI isn’t just transforming every aspect of life. It’s changing us. It’s become our permanent exocortex—or, (more…)
We all hurt
https://amalianegreponti.substack.com/p/we-all-hurt
“We all hurt in so many different ways, all the time, and pain will either change, or end,” wrote Audre Lorde in The Cancer Journals. During (more…)
The death of cancer is already here, but few have access to it
Time. The dead float free of it. But for the living, particularly for the hundreds of millions of people touched by cancer, time is everything. President Biden’s Cancer Moonshot https://www.whitehouse.gov/cancermoonshot/ (more…)
M is for Mother
It is on a bitterly cold morning, day of the New York City marathon, that my mother starts coughing up blood. She has stoically endured breathing problems ever since she got COPD, but this is different.
It (more…)
Class as Destiny
https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/class-as-destiny
GRAHAM SWIFT’S NEW BOOK, Mothering Sunday: A Romance, is simultaneously timely and timelessly subversive and provocative. The novella’s plot (more…)