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Here’s a story my future grandchildren are going to hear from me more than once: I was on South Padre Island on April 20, 2023, when... Read More

IN RITA BULLWINKEL’S debut novel Headshot (2024), the 12th Annual Women’s 18 & Under Daughters of America Cup takes place at... Read More

The Apple original series Slow Horses centers around a man who has fought two wars. The world-worn Jackson Lamb, brilliantly... Read More

More than any other living academic, Judith Butler has seen her ideas seep out into the real world—in particular, a version of one of... Read More

One of the primary conceits of Americans is the notion that they are free. They believe they are free to say what they want, do what they... Read More

Back when I was deployed in 2011, I read a fascinating passage in How the Mind Works by Harvard psychologist Steven... Read More

Publishing, even among culture industries, is notoriously sleepy as a capitalist enterprise. Many enter the field—and take spiritual... Read More

The center of attention in a crowded room, prodding strangers, no hope of blending among fellow students for emotional refuge—he hated... Read More

Not much is uncontroversial when it comes to the life and work of Sigmund Freud, but one thing ought to be: he was a lousy psychotherapist.... Read More

Many writers dream of having their books chosen for a book club attached to a daytime TV show. Jenna Bush Hager has a book club that’s... Read More

A few weeks ago, I received a long email from a psychiatrist colleague about a patient of his who’s absolutely convinced that our... Read More

My college buddies and I laughed and laughed at “Baby Got Back.” Sir Mix-a-Lot’s raunchy novelty hit praising full-figured... Read More

Donald retires from the Rams as the greatest defensive player of his generation. We may never see another interior lineman like him again. Read More

Wes Anderson’s The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar leads the anthology of four short films based on stories by British literary... Read More

IN NOVEMBER OF 2022, I SAID GOODBYE to my friends and family in Miami and took a hot pink Silver Airways plane emblazoned with “Conch... Read More

Writer Alexandra Tanner discusses dramatizing life, eliminating artifice, and the internet’s ability to bring out our worst selves. Read More

The Mafia is an American institution. No wonder it's been in decline since the 1970s. Unlike other American institutions such as the DMV and... Read More

I don’t have a lot of long-time friends. Or rather, the people I’m closest to are those I’ve met somewhat recently, like in... Read More

On September 13, 1987, in the city of Goiânia, Brazil, not far from the country’s capital, a small capsule of highly radioactive... Read More

Whatever you expect from an Alex Garland movie, he always gives you something else."Civil War" is something else again. It... Read More

This week, The Atlantic published a new list of “The Great American Novels.” It’s full of both expected classics as well as... Read More

“You’ll be happy to know I have beautiful makeup on,” Lauren Oyler told me, “when we’re talking on... Read More

1. The Divine Celebrity “There isn’t really anybody who occupies the lens to the extent that Lindsay Lohan does,” the... Read More

A recent episode of The Joe Rogan Experience podcast featured computer scientist, Ray Kurzweil, who is now working “to... Read More

What I remember above all from the late, lamented Charlie Rose show, which ran on PBS from 1991 to 2017, is what a relentless booster Rose (a... Read More

When I was a graduate teaching assistant at Harvard University a decade ago, one of my students missed a final exam because he forgot to set... Read More

I have questions about Denis Villeneuve’s Dune: Part Two. If the Fremen have lasers, why don’t they just shoot the sand... Read More