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The first line of Homer’s Odyssey can be roughly translated as, “Tell me, O Muse, of that many-talented man.” This seems... Read More

Is politics downstream of culture? Not in the publishing industry. This is evident in the recent publication of two books on editing and... Read More

In 1983, four years out of college, I was living in Rochester, New York, covering part of western New York for the Associated Press. I had a... Read More

One of the peculiarities of being young and Catholic in New York City is that everyone and their mother (including my mother) have asked me... Read More

When The Guest took the Hamptons by storm, many considered Emma Cline to have crafted the book of the summer. “People scour the pages... Read More

Christopher Nolan has described the Homeric source material of his new film of The Odyssey as “foundational” for his work. On the... Read More

“That was my Rohmer gateway drug,” says Alexandra Tell of the 1986 film Le Rayon Vert (The Green Ray). “It captures this... Read More

During the opening credits of About Last Night, we hear before we see two men having a conversation about a one-night stand. F-bombs... Read More

In 1876, as corruption scandals shook the Ulysses S. Grant administration, the poet, diplomat, and founding Atlantic editor James Russell... Read More

Granta contributors, friends and staff share what they are reading this summer.   Read More

A few weeks ago, a friend and I visited the New Museum to see the exhibit New Humans: Memories of the Future. Prosthetics performing uncanny... Read More

The following article contains spoilers for Christoper Nolan’s The Odyssey All adaptations are bad. They simply cannot be faithful, no... Read More

Travis Knight, the CEO of Laika, the animation house behind “Coraline” and “ParaNorman,” can’t shake a moment... Read More

What would become this summer’s most improbable and short-lived fling began with a double fist-pump and a hip-shimmy. Christian... Read More

The last major director in Hollywood is Sir Christopher Nolan. We have other famous names—think of Tarantino—but they’re... Read More

There’s a particular rhythm to the World Cup, a progression. It begins as an all out bacchanalia, a frenetic all-you-can-eat football... Read More

The actor Natalie Portman has long seemed more like a person who wants to brand herself as smart than like a person who is actually smart... Read More

There’s a certain type of horror story that begins with a knock at the door. A stranger stands on your threshold, waiting to be asked... Read More

I spend a lot of time thinking about how to help books out: Seeing if I can include them in a list, pitching reviews and author interviews,... Read More

I have long felt that Barack Obama’s highest aspiration was always to become an adored celebrity, perhaps even an actor; he settled for... Read More

Americans didn’t use to have to wonder about which thinkers to turn to. We had institutions that selected, vetted, appointed, and... Read More

IF THE PURPOSE of art is to achieve some semblance of catharsis, then critics be damned, the novel is alive and well. It’s hard to keep... Read More

If you’ve ever walked through a bookstore with an author by your side, you may have noticed something peculiar: writers don’t... Read More

You may have heard of Angel Studios, the producer and distributor of Young Washington, a pretty dunderheaded biopic about George Washington... Read More

A new movie about the early years of America’s first national hero and president seemed appropriate to debut on the 250th anniversary... Read More

Ain’t nobody doing it like Christopher Nolan. The British-born, Chicago-raised director is one of the most acclaimed filmmakers of our... Read More

It isn’t exactly news that Homer’s “Odyssey” is a very, very good poem. But seeing Christopher Nolan’s screen... Read More

If you ask Palantir’s Eliano Younes what his job title is, as a routine matter of course, as a tech reporter who is writing a story... Read More

In 2011, Everlane sold its first product: a plain crewneck T-shirt for $15, alongside an itemized account of what it cost to make. No apparel... Read More

For a brief moment in January 2025, Mikey Shulman was the most hated man in music. The cofounder and CEO of Suno, a generative artificial... Read More

What a year 2026 is turning out to be for books! Last week we ran our Favorite Books of 2026 (So Far) list, and now that we’ve looked... Read More