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Last week, I attended a No Kings rally in Newark, New Jersey. Technically, it was the seventh leg of Bruce Springsteen’s latest tour, a... Read More

Before incels, looksmaxxing, and body count became household terms, there once was a type of guy known as a pickup artist. The year was 2005:... Read More

In Gwendoline Riley’s novels, the sky is skin-close. It’s always raining, has just rained, or will begin to rain soon. Her... Read More

For three days in August 2022, the publishing world directed its attention not to Manhattan, but to Washington, DC, where the industry stood... Read More

This week, internet interlocutors noted that OpenAI had to instruct a new model, Codex 5.5, repeatedly, in its own system prompt,... Read More

It was more than a decade ago, in a hallway near an arena, when Gina Carano first met Ronda Rousey. Carano was wearing big blue heels —... Read More

“You’re poor,” a popular blond girl named Jillian lobbed, our desks sitting next to each other. “No, I’m... Read More

There is nothing good that can’t be ruined by technology. Major League Baseball’s Automated Balls and Strikes System, aka the... Read More

Editor’s note: This review contains spoilers for No Way Home by T. C. Boyle.   ¤ LATE IN T. C. BOYLE’S new... Read More

What if the United States were really and truly a low-tax country whereby legislators, bound and dedicated to the Founders’ deep... Read More

Seldom does a book predict its imminent descent into textual illegibility, but Cairo Smith’s Scenebux ends with an... Read More

Back when I worked at Sussex University, I sat through a lot of meetings. To relieve the tedium, I used to note changing fashions in... Read More

In Ray Carney’s Cassavetes on Cassavetes, the filmmaker John Cassavetes is asked by a friend, Burt Lane, what makes him tick. The two... Read More

We know Taylor Swift all too well. Her ubiquity makes her familiar, and familiarity breeds merch, memes, and multipart documentaries such as... Read More

Marvin Gaye was rarely happy. His career, at times, seemed to only serve as a launching pad for prying eyes to uncover the secrets of his... Read More

When Buckingham Palace announced that King Charles and Queen Camilla would visit the United States to mark the 250th anniversary of American... Read More

Looking for somewhere to move? Why not to a historic home? In today’s American Artifacts, James Taylor Foreman writes about his... Read More

I’ve got a recommendation for all of you. Don’t be bullied out of your own taste, especially by someone who evades a... Read More

Benjamin Harrison, anyone? He was our 23rd president, well known to few, a mere name to most, probably unknown to those younger than,... Read More

John Cougar Mellencamp’s combative liberalism has long been an unexpected plot twist for casual fans, politicians, and country music... Read More

Given the masculine brutality endemic to noir fiction, it’s hardly surprising that many readers associate the genre with conservative,... Read More

We live in an era of constant reinvention and self-documentation, the careful crafting of an exterior life. But can we truly write our own... Read More

There are two kinds of boys in this world: boys who have good style, and boys who have bad style. I don’t need to say much about the... Read More

“It’s a bitch,” says Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers. “And I thought it would kill... Read More

The author’s historical epic Lázár has become an unlikely international sensation Read More

In her seminal book, On Beauty and Being Just, Elaine Scarry notes that the encounter between Odysseus and Nausicaa in book six of... Read More

The Turing Test is shorthand for a 1950 thought experiment that the great mathematician, logician, computer-pioneer, and cryptographer Alan... Read More

When you first start a novel, there is often a joyous high. You have this great idea, you’re excited about it, and now you’re off... Read More

When Cosmopolitan1 asked me to write this cover story about my best friend Olivia Rodrigo, my first question for her was,... Read More

The new novel Yesteryear has an immediately intriguing premise. Natalie Heller Mills, a successful tradwife influencer, wakes up... Read More