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Toward the end of Midwestern Death Trip, her richly detailed history of a region and war-report from its bars and supper clubs, Meaghan... Read More

The film critic A.S. Hamrah came to widespread attention in the late 2000s with a new form, a knockabout variant of the capsule reviews... Read More

In recent years, the challenge of escalating housing prices has become a major hurdle for young people looking toward family formation,... Read More

The Criterion Collection has a new series running called “Office Romances,” about the popular movies from the 1930s through the... Read More

The “girlboss” is back. The term, popularized in the 2014 book Girlboss, once positively connoted a woman who adopted traditional... Read More

People love to get angry about someone else’s taste, so this week I thought I’d take a crack at throwing a little gunpowder in... Read More

I find it upsetting when people who are clearly curious and artistically inclined choose to expend that energy in their romantic endeavors. I... Read More

BLUE MOUNDS, Wisc. – Ridglan Farms, a breeder of beagles for scientific experiments, has withstood attacks from the animal rights... Read More

I’ve been reading a bit about the tech titans and, in an era when reading is supposed to be finished, it’s striking how much they... Read More

Chancellor Gates, Rector Poston and members of the Board, President Rowe—thank you for the beautiful video and introduction and for the... Read More

In late March, I encountered a topless woman at the Kona Club Tiki bar in Oakland. Her hips gyrated with a steady mechanical squeak, her... Read More

Earlier this month, I stood beneath the towering frame of the Empire State Building in Midtown Manhattan and something my friend Mark, a New... Read More

In spring 2025, OpenAI rolled out an update of ChatGPT that featured a new image generator. The update proved wildly popular in large part... Read More

A few days ago, a major newspaper published an unusual piece of film criticism. The author wants fewer films released—has a journalist... Read More

Perhaps the greatest challenge every current affairs author faces is the inevitable decision of where to draw the line. As events continue to... Read More

Finn, a sixth grader, stood up. It was his turn to present his start-up: a streetwear brand named “22.” Pacing around the front... Read More

Marcello Hernández has invented a new game. On a sunny yet deceivingly cold spring day, the 28-year-old comedian and Saturday Night... Read More

On May 8, Pentagon officials began releasing previously classified material related to unidentified flying objects. The UFO files may not... Read More

At a time when readers and writers alike lament the diminished ambition and cultural place of American fiction, here come two new novels... Read More

STEVE KERR WALKED into the lobby of the Beverly Wilshire with a secret. Win or lose, he'd decided to retire as head coach of the Golden State... Read More

Bruce Springsteen—man, myth, rock demigod—materializes at a mic as if beamed to it from beyond the clouds, drawing thunderous... Read More

Growing up in Amritsar, India, food was never just cooked; it was offered. My grandmother stirred pots at dawn with instinct and... Read More

Last week, I had the great pleasure of welcoming to Atlanta Jacob Mchangama, who came to talk to me about his book. We had a... Read More

Ron Rosenbaum’s latest book, Bob Dylan: Things Have Changed, is not a biography. It is instead a “kind of... Read More

If you’ve never heard a pack of coyotes shrieking in the middle of the night and want to know what it sounds like, imagine a group of... Read More

To live in Guayaquil, Ecuador is to be at the mercy of the tectonic plates under your feet. Nicole and Noa, the young women at the heart of... Read More

Amid a stretch of red-brick buildings, the Brooklyn restaurant Margot, right at the corner on a busy intersection, stands out. It’s... Read More

The great Christian apologist and literary critic C.S. Lewis provides a surprising amount of moral and political wisdom despite not being a... Read More

Prometheus might have handed humanity fire, but he certainly did not give us a smartphone. Digital technology is not God-given. Nor is... Read More

I’ve been looking into the literacy crisis, and I think I now understand it. These days young people are either making videos about how... Read More

Truth, the saying goes, is stranger than fiction. Not so the fictions of Joy Williams, which are precisely strange enough to capture the... Read More

From the moment Beth Dutton (Kelly Reilly) looks over the Montana landscape to sigh, “Did you ever imagine we could have this? This... Read More

Matthew McConaughey sat before a roomful of aspiring young actors and filmmakers this February at his alma mater, the University of Texas at... Read More