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There’s a particular kind of focus that happens when you’re record hunting. Your brain gets quiet. Your hands do the thinking.... Read More

At most McMurtry family reunions at the Clarendon Country Club, the days were split between mealtime and storytelling. After lunch, the aging... Read More

I’ve never been to Maine, and all of the hikes I’ve ever taken can be tallied on one hand. Yet, somehow, in reading How to... Read More

Recently, it occurred to me that, by the close of this year, I will have published a book with almost every single kind of publisher. This is... Read More

Every man has some picture that is the image of his secret life — his dream. People are often damned by theirs. Clavicular (née... Read More

If there is something to be learned from the words people pick for their passwords and proxies, then Lena Dunham’s choice of aliases... Read More

Recommending Ross Barkan’s new book Colossus gets tricky because a lot of its strength is tied up in secrets (about the... Read More

There’s a certain class of commentator—overrepresented on cable panels and cocktail parties—that insists the central... Read More

In late March, the New York Times dispensed with the services of one of their freelance book reviewers. Normally, such things go... Read More

When I say Bieber is today’s Adonis, I’m not referring to Drake’s kid; nor even, really, to the common notion of “a... Read More

In December, President Donald Trump set in motion a revolution in federal drug policy: the reclassification of marijuana from federal... Read More

No living American historian is as prolific as Blake Whiting. In one week alone last fall, he published 13 books on a host of complex... Read More

In the wee hours of Sunday, March 1, a Senegalese immigrant clad in a sweatshirt bearing the words “Property of Allah” opened... Read More

In his novel Penguin Island (1908), Anatole France spins a wonderful tale about a blind old monk who sets off from Brittany on a mission to... Read More

Since the COVID panic devastated the film industry, the landscape of American cinema recalls Mordor as depicted in The Lord of the... Read More

Keanu Reeves is reliably charming in Outcome, a new Apple TV comedy-drama about a beloved movie star, Reef Hawk, who’s making a... Read More

The biggest mistake I could make as a political analyst would be to underestimate an adversary. To assume that there’s no method to the... Read More

Americans have lived through two revolutions in the post-war era. The first was a revolution of rising expectations accompanied by affluence,... Read More

“Most English-speaking people,” the fantasist and philologist J. R. R. Tolkien wrote, “will admit that cellar door is... Read More

Just as my parents remember where they were when we landed on the moon, I remember where I was when I first saw the music video for Lana Del... Read More

The president spoke of liberty spreading by cell phone, and the internet’s father proclaimed its goal was to “serve... Read More

Artificial Intelligence presents a number of risks and challenges, the most important of which is existential risk. That is a fancy way of... Read More

CONSIDER THE DUMPSTER. What’s in it? Where does it go? This winter, the house next door to us is being gut renovated—and gut... Read More

The Ryan Gosling–led sci-fi thriller Project Hail Mary, released March 20, has surpassed $300 million at the box... Read More

They’ve been calling Kristoffer Borgli this year’s enfant terrible, and I can’t be bothered to figure out why.... Read More

A collection of black-and-white photographs by anonymous French soldiers, of their fellows wearing gas masks and other alien-looking... Read More

In A Separation—Katie Kitamura’s third novel, and the first in an informal trilogy that ends with Audition—the first-person... Read More

The headline for this New York Times interview with Lena Dunham reads “Lena Dunham is Still Trying to Figure Out Why... Read More

When Carey Mulligan was preparing for her role in Beef, she had some feedback about the insults. The second season of the Netflix anthology... Read More

There has never been a time when more people had an “excuse” for being rude at an airport. During the recent TSA government... Read More

This story contains spoilers for the Season 2 finale of The Pitt, “9:00 PM.” Michael Robinavitch will live to intubate another... Read More

One of the most common questions we get during tours of our learning space is this: “With such small class sizes, do you worry about... Read More