Bekah Waalkes

1 month ago | theatlantic.com | Bekah Waalkes

Reading has been unfairly maligned as an indoor activity for far too long, in my opinion. As a child, when nice weather came around, I was told to put down my book and go play outside: You can read any old day, adults would say, reminding me that sunshine can be fleeting. The warm days of spring, full of blooming flowers, are certainly worth savoring while you can. But why not bring a book along?

2 months ago | theatlantic.com | Bekah Waalkes

Nothing amplifies a popular trend more than a prominent critic making a noisy case against it. In her 2021 polemic, “The Case Against the Trauma Plot,” the literary critic Parul Sehgal argued that trauma had become a central feature of contemporary literature.

2 months ago | flipboard.com | Bekah Waalkes

ChatGPT: Everything you need to know about the AI-powered chatbotChatGPT, OpenAI’s text-generating AI chatbot, has taken the world by storm since its launch in November 2022. What started as a tool to supercharge productivity through writing essays and code with short text prompts has evolved into a behemoth with 300 million weekly active users. 2024 was a big …

Dec 5, 2024 | businessandamerica.com | Bekah Waalkes

For Edward Said, to be Palestinian was to be an exile. In 1979 he wrote, “Behind every Palestinian there is a great general fact: that he once—and not so long ago—lived in a land of his own called Palestine, which is now no longer his homeland.” Yet Said is careful to maintain that despite this shared past, all Palestinians have unique histories and experiences.

Dec 5, 2024 | theatlantic.com | Bekah Waalkes

For Edward Said, to be Palestinian was to be an exile. In 1979 he wrote, “Behind every Palestinian there is a great general fact: that he once—and not so long ago—lived in a land of his own called Palestine, which is now no longer his homeland.” Yet Said is careful to maintain that despite this shared past, all Palestinians have unique histories and experiences.