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The AI Narrator and the Crisis of Fictional Consciousness

Literary fiction is increasingly using AI and non-human narrators not as sci-fi devices but as a mainstream technique for exploring consciousness — the first major formal innovation in two decades, and a signal about what the culture is processing.

William KesslerMarch 18, 20267 min read

Books

What the Novel Cannot Do

The novel has always been the art form most committed to individual consciousness. In an age that doubts the coherence of the self, that commitment has become a problem.

William KesslerMarch 10, 202613 min read