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Macbeth is a play about two things very much on Americans’ minds—regime change at home and whose children will inherit the... Read More

Bitter Water Opera, the debut novel by Nicolette Polek published on Tuesday, asks exciting, original, and urgently relevant questions about... Read More

The louche or unabashedly noxious young man has mostly vanished from contemporary American fiction. He is neither author nor subject; there... Read More

Hours after the news broke that OJ Simpson had died from cancer at the age of 76, I was sitting in a conference room, listening to an... Read More

Two of the most fearsome words in the entire rock ‘n’ roll lexicon: solo career. The genre is strewn with the wreckage of... Read More

After hundreds of episodes of Hot Ones, there’s little a guest can do to shake up the reliable formula of thoughtful questions combined... Read More

Place your hand on the ground of American politics. Keep it there a moment. You’ll feel a deep rumble like A Minor Forest “math... Read More

Kid Cudi has returned from space with Insano, his ninth studio album. It’s a decidedly material effort, one that’s more about the... Read More

The American experiment is in trouble. Deaths of despair — due to suicide, drugs or alcohol poisoning — have surged... Read More

Russians take positions to the extreme. As a result, Russian intellectual history shows us where ideas may lead—and in Russia’s... Read More

In Francis Ford Coppola’s 1979 classic Apocalypse Now, a US patrol boat heads upriver during the Vietnam War to assassinate... Read More

Rob Henderson’s new memoir, Troubled, describes his journey from foster care in rural California to military service in... Read More

I wonder, I wonder how the campaigners at Action on Smoking and Health feel this morning. Their mission to kill off the dreaded... Read More

The new film Civil War may want to be edgy, timely, even thoughtful, but it has nothing to offer beyond surface-level thrills,... Read More

No one ever really gets away with murder. If O.J. Simpson had played football in the ’60s for Bay Shore High School and taken... Read More

According to Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, they are a “sinister new threat to the health of young... Read More

You probably don’t remember the Humane Pin, despite its dominating the tech-news cycle a few months ago. It’s an elegant... Read More

The other day, I was messaging with the writer Mo_Diggs on the topic of pop music and the culture, and how so few of the current... Read More

In a recent review of a work of contemporary video art, the novelist and poet Ben Lerner made a bizarre admission: I’ve... Read More

It’s difficult to decide whether Patrick Deneen’s Regime Change is to be faulted for being too ambitious or not ambitious... Read More

This week, on the heels of a whistleblower piece published at the Free Press, Katherine Maher, the new head of NPR, is under fire.... Read More

One of the pleasures of reading 19th-century novels is that authors write openly about money. Take for instance Mr. Bennett, the patriarch... Read More

Not long ago, a high-profile conservative woman of my acquaintance was cornered at the National Conservatism conference by a pimply young man... Read More

Anne Carson and I met on Zoom last October, in the brick-red sitting room of her apartment in Reykjavik, the city where she and her husband,... Read More

Is Tom Ripley gay? For nearly 70 years, the answer has bedeviled readers of Patricia Highsmith’s 1955 thriller The Talented Mr. Ripley,... Read More

How should a poet dress? Since announcing her forthcoming album, The Tortured Poets Department, Taylor Swift—who’s been known to... Read More

While you may have enjoyed the samurai stylings of Hulu’s Shogun—the plotting, the fighting, the politicking, the... Read More

Over the course of February 2024, I had exchanges and conversations, formal and informal, off and on record, with about 90 Jewish poets and... Read More

A joke told often in Budapest says that World War III will be lost by whichever side Hungary is on. Balázs Orbán, the political... Read More

Growing up, our car radio was always tuned to 90.7, American Family Radio. We lived about 15 minutes from the nearest town, so we spent a lot... Read More