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I don’t remember when my insomnia started, or rather I don’t remember a time when it wasn’t there, as an active presence or... Read More

Almost a year ago, a few months prior to the time Garth Greenwell’s article “Taking Offense: Reading through a bad... Read More

Donald Trump is going to complete the system of German idealism!”—so declared the Twitter philosopher Kantbot on a Manhattan... Read More

“I received terrible news from Rome,” wrote Ann Goldstein, the acclaimed American translator of Elena Ferrante’s books, in... Read More

When Playboy first interviewed director Paul Thomas Anderson for the February 1998 issue, he was only 27 years old and hot off the... Read More

There’s a beloved lyric from the Menzingers, a heart-on-sleeve punk band out of Pennsylvania, that always makes me think of the... Read More

HELEN GARNER’S FICTION has a Philip problem. We’re first introduced to him in Monkey Grip (1977) as a “hesitant... Read More

Melania, a documentary about the first lady billed with the subtitle “Twenty Days To History,” opens at Donald J. Trump’s... Read More

There’s a very funny paper about how many urbanist scholars themselves live in gentrifying areas, a phenomenon that the... Read More

There are few greater muses than one’s own childhood. In recent months, this idea has taken visual form across fashion runways, with... Read More

The Chiricahua Apache are often imagined as exemplars of recalcitrance. This is thanks in large part to the band led by Geronimo in one of... Read More

His prediction is everywhere, dominating the zeitgeist: current birth rates will lead to the end of civilization. Fertility rates keep... Read More

What’s a better way for a man to spend his time: building a successful business or pursuing a delusional scheme of self-destruction?... Read More

I have been trying to write this article for approximately the last eight months. When The Freeman approached me and asked if I had... Read More

At the 1938 Academy Awards, the Oscar for Best Directing went to Leo McCarey for his movie The Awful Truth. You could scarcely say that... Read More

A writer is forever at risk of hubris. A writer plays god, after all; he or she is a shaper of reality, a giddy or miserable tyrant, the sole... Read More

In the 1980s, young writers were often advised to submit their work to literary journals and small magazines. This was the era of Ray Carver,... Read More

“What the hell happened to Tucker Carlson?” That is the question Jason Zengerle poses and attempts to answer in his new... Read More

Guillermo del Toro is one of the few celebrated directors of our time. This is not a question of merit—he’s no master, he’s... Read More

Beneath the loud wars over masculinity, with Democrats recently launching a $20 million “strategic plan” entitled “Speaking... Read More

IN THE 2023 FILM American Fiction, an adaption of Percival Everett’s novel Erasure (2001), a hilarious but unexpectedly... Read More

1.The way I see it, there are two places where I have a “zone of disagreement” with you. One is just in the general assessment of... Read More

British American filmmaker Louis Theroux has spent much of his long career interviewing people it’s easy to hate: from members of... Read More

Take the rage of modern feminism, the scourge of pornography, and add classic Hollywood movie musical and horror elements, overlap with an... Read More

It’s 10:30 am on the first Sunday of the new year. I am standing at a ping-pong table, accessed through the parking garage of an... Read More

Oscar time, baby! Time to make sure the door is locked against vampires, crack a few small beers, and see how Hollywood chose to honor some... Read More

Pixar was, for years, near bulletproof. It’s not a studio most have associated with crisis—even though it has courted disaster,... Read More

There is a reason the “Okay, boomer” meme has endured while others have come and gone. Even with most of... Read More

For years, our go-to gift for new babies and young children celebrating birthdays has been Talking Like the Rain: A Read-to-Me Book of... Read More

It is hard to read any article or book about what ails children today without encountering a discussion of "ACEs," or "adverse childhood... Read More