Bekah Waalkes

3 weeks 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.

3 weeks 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.

Oct 3, 2024 | theatlantic.com | Bekah Waalkes

A classic bildungsroman follows the growth and development of a young person, who typically matures from a dreamer into a rational being. Jane Austen was a master of the genre: In her posthumously published novel Northanger Abbey, she satirizes the overly imaginative Catherine Morland, a voracious reader who perceives her life as a Gothic story. Catherine finds intrigue and plot everywhere she looks: A cabinet in her room might hold morbid secrets; a laundry bill might be a clue to a dark scheme.