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According to “The Women Leaving the New Right,” a viral piece by Sam Adler-Bell in New York magazine, the movement has... Read More

Imagine Vladimir Nabokov submitting Lolita to a Master of Fine Arts degree program. First, under the tenured wisdom of his... Read More

I used to regularly skip school on the first two days of March Madness. Those beguiling opening-round days, where it feels like absolutely... Read More

“I coach boys how to be fucking boys,” says streamer HsTikkyTokky when we first meet him in Louis Theroux’s latest Netflix... Read More

“American Diner Gothic,” published in The New Atlantis and newly viral on X, coins a term for what author Robert Mariani sees as... Read More

DOPAMINE HITS ARE abundant these days: for better or worse, we live at a stage of history when quick satisfaction can be easily achieved.... Read More

I. The first time I tried reading John Cowper Powys was during the summer of 2019. I had just moved from one apartment to another (right... Read More

This week, the venture capitalist Marc Andreessen declared war on “introspection.”  Read More

Editor’s Note: This review contains spoilers.  There is a scene early in Project Hail Mary that tells you... Read More

In 16th century Rome, the Italian philosopher and occultist Giordano Bruno was famously burned alive for his beliefs. The mainstream... Read More

Lindy West is the most successful feminist writer of her (and my) generation. In her pomp at Jezebel, she mastered both viral... Read More

AI culture is here, and the question is now: will it be friendly to us? Read More

Even before Ida (Jessie Buckley) becomes a black-bile-spewing revenant, you wouldn’t call her a proper lady. At a shady gin joint in... Read More

Antonin Scalia's jurisprudential legacy has flourished far beyond what anyone might have reasonably imagined at the time of his death 10... Read More

You know these people. East Coast writers of varying degrees of seriousness. Center-left on both the political spectrum and the Kinsey scale.... Read More

I. Ladies and gentlemen of the jury — before the defense begins, I propose two axioms regarding the dangers of literary myth-making... Read More

During the New England section of Pete Hegseth’s manufacturing-focused “Arsenal of Freedom” tour, the Secretary of War... Read More

Ryan Gosling’s sci-fi epic “Project Hail Mary” lived up to its name, collecting a stellar $80.5 million in its box office... Read More

When I read that Major League Baseball was partnering with Polymarket, I did not expect much controversy.  Read More

Let’s say I have bought a book, a novel. I wait for a quiet hour, close the door to my room, sit in the most comfortable chair I have,... Read More

Many writers level the following challenge at liberalism: it must either betray itself or fail to defend itself. Remain tolerant, and it will... Read More

Two summers ago, I bought a condo down the street from an empty lot. It was empty in one sense. There was a chain-link fence around the... Read More

When Niall Horan was a kid, before he became a wildly famous pop star overnight, he would tune into a whimsical late-’90s... Read More

La poesía no quiere adeptos, quiere amantes. —Federico García Lorca “The poetry of earth is never dead.” So... Read More

It is a great tribute to the profundity of Flannery O’Connor’s work that it continues to generate quality secondary literature... Read More

A new Netflix documentary takes viewers into “the manosphere,” a loose network of YouTubers, podcasters, live-streamers... Read More

On February 1, 2026, the day before Groundhog Day, in Lenhartsville, Pennsylvania, a driveway glazed with ice leads to an open garage door... Read More

There was a certain level of comic flourish when I, opening my Christmas presents this year, revealed of all things, a new biography of... Read More

I recently used economist Albert Hirschman’s Exit, Voice, and Loyalty to explain why Jacinda Ardern, the former prime... Read More

On the opening page of The Inman Diary, the book’s editor makes a bold claim: this work “has no counterpart in any... Read More

Ian, I want to ask you about a couple themes from your recent essay “Burnout and Hope.” You wonder how to diagnose the cause of... Read More