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Will Self has been warning of the death of the novel for years, so it might be heartening for him to consider that the release of his new... Read More

Nobody reads anymore. Or, to put it more accurately, nobody reads like they used to. Well, except for you, of course. This should... Read More

This Christmas Eve, as I’ve done every year since I was a child, I joined my father’s side of the family at my aunt’s... Read More

After he crossed the 70 point threshold, I was rooting for Heat center Bam Adebayo to break Kobe Bryant’s 3-point line era record of 81... Read More

Modern conservatives recognize their duty to reverse the devastation wrought by nearly a century of progressive cultural hegemony. And yet,... Read More

Greetings from the Swamp! I always enjoy visiting. Excise the ruthless bastards, the useless bastards, the liars, reptiles, and Grooms... Read More

It’s hardly going out on a limb to predict that Paul Thomas Anderson’s “One Battle After Another” and Ryan... Read More

The furor over the USA men’s hockey team visiting the Trump White House has faded, but the gap between sports media and the average fan... Read More

Let it be clear from the outset: I don’t think Matt Walsh is smart. Not for a public intellectual, and even among podcaster guys and... Read More

In 1835, when Samuel Clemens was born, the United States was a fledgling 59 years old, a drooling infant in the actuarial terms of political... Read More

Luis Buñuel’s adaptation of Wuthering Heights, Abismos de pasión (1954) opens with a declaration of... Read More

Monday marked the 32nd anniversary of the passing of Charles Bukowski from leukemia at age 73. Considering the life he lived, it is... Read More

Consider two images, or visions, of the study of the liberal arts. One is of a bright young student looking intently at a beautifully... Read More

It started, as so many things do, with a 90-second video on X. A young, bespectacled woman with a charming German accent speaks, to... Read More

From the day it was published, no one has quite known what to do with Emily Brontë’s novel Wuthering Heights, which... Read More

On an evening last November, Kylie ­Jenner was out late at her mother Kris Jenner’s 70th birthday party, held at the Warner Estate... Read More

Leroy was the head custodian, 63 years old, tall and fat, with a short fuzzy white beard like Santa Claus trying out something new. He took... Read More

In the opening beats of The Bride!, the second feature written and directed by Maggie Gyllenhaal, the ghost of Mary Shelley (Jessie... Read More

I was not an accomplished student in high school. To this day, many of my oldest friends recall placing bets on whether or not I would show... Read More

When it is quiet at night, I hear it again. A flash of sound streaks across my mind like a jet fighter tearing low out of nowhere and... Read More

“If you think I have been brainwashed and I am secretly miserable, I simply do not know what to tell you.” So proclaims the final... Read More

Down Time is a touching and very funny novel about a group of interconnected friends who spend their time fucking, fucking up, masking,... Read More

Brace yourself for hot peptide summer. In late February, health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. joined Joe Rogan on his podcast, revealing... Read More

It’s finally warming up here in Washington, DC, and earlier this month was the first instance I was able to comfortably sit on our roof... Read More

In the 20th century, when Freudian theory clung on as tightly as Hamlet to his mother, everybody had a complex. We struggled with inferiority... Read More

Oscars Season is upon us, and consistent readers can probably guess which films I favor for the biggest awards. One Battle After... Read More

Fanny Howe wrote to the end of her 84 years, leaving behind more than fifty books of poetry, prose, and essays, published across a half... Read More

I spent the month of February re-reading Les Miserables. This novel is 1,500 pages long. It’s basically the same story as the... Read More

WILL THERE EVER BE Another You, Patricia Lockwood’s new novel, is a lyrical portrait of life with long COVID, a colorful and intimate... Read More

Half a century after the book “Why Johnny Can’t Read” sounded an alarm about the rise of illiteracy in the U.S., it has... Read More

As a tool for hubristic elites bent on radical upheaval, propaganda is a prelude to monophony. Read More

You’ve previously published a novel and a collection of stories. Down Time is somewhere in between. How did you land on its... Read More

So if you didn’t know, Michelle Zauner wrote the foreword to the recent 30th anniversary re-release of Infinite Jest. Now, if you... Read More

As a professor of African American history, whenever I come across a black-oriented historical movie, the first thing I think about is... Read More