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Celebrations are so engrained in the history and culture of baseball that the first ever recorded high five came after a Dusty Baker home run... Read More

  This past weekend marked a tectonic shift in Hollywood that’s sent shock waves across the industry. “Backrooms,” a... Read More

Dickens wrote those words of his character Mr. Merdle, a financier whose mythical moneymaking abilities caused him to be lionized by rich and... Read More

Is it ever a bad time to talk about “new” media? (Yes.) But with BuzzFeed News recently wrapping its rise and fall with a rescue... Read More

When economists debate the future of work, they often ask the question: what will humans’ comparative advantage be? I think the key to... Read More

A driver on I-71 who takes the exit toward Ashland, Ohio, my home now for nearly three years, will be greeted with an oversized welcome... Read More

One of the most irritating things we learn in Ted Geltner’s new biography of Denis Johnson, Flagrant, Self-Destructive Gestures, is... Read More

Last month, a short story “The Serpent in the Grove” was awarded a prize and published in the prestigious literary magazine,... Read More

At the port of Piraeus, the triremes employed by the ancient Athenians had to be periodically beached to dry, their wooden hulls otherwise... Read More

It is virtually forbidden—as an unpatriotic act—that the American boy evolve into the complexity of manhood. —James... Read More

Mary, a veteran Silicon Valley marketer who can’t find a job, considers herself a victim of an H-1B visa program run amok.  Her... Read More

Alongside the curves of the Colorado River, surrounded by flatlands and scrub, Tesla’s Gigafactory sprawls over 2,500 acres outside... Read More

In David Lodge’s 1984 novel Small World, the character Persse McGarrigle is writing a Master’s thesis titled ‘The Influence... Read More

Is Sam Levinson crying? From where I was sitting, it certainly looked like it. We were in a dark soundstage on the Warner Bros. lot in... Read More

Angela and Marcus Reed live in a small Ohio town, in a neighborhood strung together by seemingly endless cul-de-sacs and perfectly manicured... Read More

Here’s an idea for a game show. It’s called “Materialists on Mushrooms.” A bunch of hardheaded scientists gather in a... Read More

For a long time, I did not read Proust. I never imagined what it would be like to read Proust, the way one imagines, in that strange almost... Read More

In my regular life I am a statistician. I am not a fancy statistician, but I do have a bachelor’s degree in the subject, some sense of... Read More

For the first time in seemingly ages, books are dominating the cultural conversation. Recent memoirs by Lindy West, Lena Dunham, and Belle... Read More

The Guardian has published a clickbait list of the 100 Best Novels. The 100 best novels, that is, insofar as translation into English permits... Read More

One might say that the topic of modernity is what’s wrong with modernity. The fact that the word infests the titles and subtitles of so... Read More

Author Allie Rowbottom didn’t watch porn until she was 20. With roommates and a bowl of popcorn, she slid in a DVD starring blue-movie... Read More

Hilary Mantel sold an awful lot of books, but what is her literary legacy? Since her Wolf Hall trilogy, historical fiction has earned itself... Read More

Growing up, Cara Delevingne always knew she wanted to be a musician. She learned to play the piano and the drums early on, dreaming of one... Read More

At this time last year, the idea of a wide-release feature film-maker cutting their teeth on YouTube was, if not unheard of, certainly still... Read More

Spring is the time of year I buy typewriters. It must be the change of season—green shoots pushing up through the thawing earth, bulbs... Read More