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“How A.I. Killed Student Writing (and Revived It),” published this week in the New York Times by Dana... Read More

Getting into generational discourse is not unlike diving deep into astrology: Every vague, contradictory statement feels true, especially... Read More

I never got into the corporate thrillers of the 1980s, ’90s, and aughts, the subject of a new retrospective at the Criterion... Read More

Trickster, hypester, bullshit artist, Elon Musk is a profoundly ambiguous figure. A libertarian, an exponent of slashing the state, he built... Read More

This is not a traditional review but a look at the set of myths and the sublimated pursuit of dominance that have made it necessary to mount... Read More

It wasn’t until 2025 that the trouble reached my door. But it began long before that, in June 2020, after the death of George Floyd.... Read More

In the last days of 2025, among tech commenters in rarefied corners of X, a new consensus emerged: AGI was here. By AGI, they meant... Read More

Dwight Garner is the most prominent book critic at the New York Times which makes him, arguably, the most influential book critic... Read More

The Devil Wears Prada 2 begins in much the same way as the 2006 film. We see Andy Sachs, now twenty years into her journalism career,... Read More

There is a sentence on page 18 of GIRLS® around which nearly the entire book is structured. “I am not an expert or an... Read More

In Caro Claire Burke’s debut novel Yesteryear, the main character Natalie Heller Mills is a wealthy tradwife who gets her... Read More

Walking through the exquisite exhibition of Paul Klee’s late work at the Jewish Museum, faced with the maddening variety of themes,... Read More

Tweet enough times and you’ll end up here. It’s expected in my milieu. Cherries, lambs, Lana. Patron saint of the sensitive young... Read More

Twenty years ago, back when I’d first started telling people I was a writer, I was in a second-hand bookshop looking for books that... Read More

Andrew Breitbart was an angry man. He was angry because he found himself in a world where the mainstream media lied to the American people... Read More

If you have never encountered, or had to provide sustenance for, kiddos who eat a narrow, self-selected range of foods, count yourself among... Read More

For the contemporary movie nerd who consumes films then consumes all the media dissecting and discussing those films, Sean Fennessey looms... Read More

Last month, veteran media reporter Dylan Byers reported in Puck that Vox Media was being disassembled and sold off. The collection of... Read More

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

A novelist writes to move someone. He begins by probing his own feelings—the things he loves and the things he hates. The things that... Read More

Since Sept. 11, 2001, commentators on the American right have tended to cast Islam as menance to Western liberties.  Read More

I am not a big fan of the “churn it out” model of content creation. Writers are not machines, and even fields need to sometimes... 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