“It was almost sweet the way they worried about me.” I recently re-read the Richard Powers book Galatea 2.2 which involves a novelist feeding culture and conversation into an AI protocol and inadvertently trying to shape it into a lost love, while also piling assumption after assumption onto an actual woman for the same purposes, and it struck me, along with this short story by Circe and The Song of Achilles author Madeleine Miller, how important the naming of the stories plays into the understanding of it. For both […]