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Consulting the Oracle | Merve Emre, Sheila Heti

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By Sheila Heti, Merve Emre
| Soundings from The New York Review
In the fall of 2022, I saw the novelist Sheila Heti give a presentation on her conversations with early AI chat bots. Their names were Eliza, Alice, and George, and they had wild, undisciplined opinions about art, selfhood, and God. Talking to them seemed to come naturally to Heti.
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The Best Tape You Can Get

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By Merve Emre, Chana Joffe-Walt Verified
| Soundings from The New York Review
I’ve been listening to Chana Joffe-Walt for a long time now on This American Life, where she often takes over from Ira Glass to host special episodes on race, labor, and education. Independently, she hosted the New York Times podcast Nice White Parents, which focused on school segregation and how progressive Brooklyn families undermined racial integration.
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László Krasznahorkai Writes Because He Fails

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By Merve Emre
| The New Yorker Verified
Our conversation has been edited for length and clarity. Krasznahorkai’s answers, which were delivered in Hungarian, have been translated by Mulzet. I was moved by your Nobel Prize banquet speech, especially by your mention of your older brother. You thanked him for always lifting you onto his shoulders when you were children, because he taught you “that there could be another way of looking at the world.” What did you see up there? At first, nothing.
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