In July 2025, Audrey Crews, paralyzed for two decades, wrote her name using only her thoughts. A Neuralink chip with thousands of microelectrodes decoded the electrical signals in her motor cortex, translating intention into digital text. “Just a normal day using telepathy,” she posted on X.
People constantly name The Secret History by Donna Tartt as the foundational text of dark academia—but A.S. Byatt’s masterpiece Possession was published two years earlier. Possession is the novel t…