Dream Hotel, The
“Under the right circumstances, anything can be made into something sinister.” Author: Laila Lalami Sara gets pulled away from her husband and twin infants at LAX, presumably for a routine risk assessment. She is exhausted, angry, irritated. She isn’t at her best. Bad goes to worse when the Risk Assessment Administration decides that her irascibility and their algorithm, which tracks everything from a person’s actions to the content of their dreams, denotes her as a safety risk. She’ll have to go to Madison, a women’s retention center, where she will be monitored for twenty-one days or until the algorithm determines that [...]
