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Have you ever tasted a homemade cookie, or a slice of cake, and told the person who made it, “This is so good, you could sell... Read More

Adjectives cling to Ben Lerner like cockleburs. He is “subtle and sinuous,” per James Wood in the New Yorker. His work is... Read More

A Little Bit Bad, the debut novel by Cassandra Neyenesch, starts with a man falling off a ladder. Reading this gleefully disorienting story,... Read More

I hit my reading peak when I was eleven or twelve. At the time, it was a joke. I had a bedside table and it was stacked with books, all at... Read More

Jamir Nazir, Sharon Aruparayil, John Edward DeMicoli, and Holly Ann Miller are all heroes. Don’t misunderstand me too quickly.  On... Read More

My parents were both professional tennis players—it’s how they met—but my mother started young, and committed more... Read More

You shouldn’t trust people who say they’ve invented something. In hip-hop, as in life, everyone is a transitional figure, a... Read More

Contrary to popular belief, New York City is hella trad. No cap on God. Well…perhaps it would be more accurate to say that NYC is the... Read More

he Devil Wears Prada 2—a sequel to the Academy Award-nominated original from twenty years ago—is a fun Hollywood spectacle,... Read More

There is a teacherly tendency among film adaptations of the Gospels, in their conscientious efforts to sugar the bitter pill of Scripture and... Read More

I’ve been thinking about some things Jay-Z has recently said about his evolution as an artist—an evolution I admire just as much... Read More

“For fifty years we told this story one way,” best-selling sportswriter Keith O’Brien says. “We weaved the stories of... Read More

After a long winter, readers look to summer for a respite — an opportunity to sink into stories that are magical, mysterious and... Read More

In his 2024 book All Things Are Full of Gods, the renowned philosopher of religion David Bentley Hart wrote a Socratic dialogue unlike any... Read More

In his new book The Almighty Dollar: 500 Years of the World’s Most Powerful Money, Brendan Greeley gives a different history of the... Read More

In the summer of 1983, the best-known Jewish feminist you’ve never heard of walked away from the women’s movement and never came... Read More

The historical reenactor is a familiar American stereotype: men who don archaic garments, take up fake weapons, and stage bygone battles. At... Read More

It was the first night of Art Basel Miami Beach in 2023 when I found myself beneath the Interstate 95 overpass at Downtown Miami Lot 11... Read More

A Bluesky thread — perish the thought! — crossed my newsfeeding trough yesterday morning between sets of Larsen presses and Kroc... Read More

The odds of winning the 2026 Commonwealth Short Story Prize—a prestigious literary award recognizing unpublished short fiction from... Read More

In the strange case of Gad Saad, we have a public intellectual and cultural firebrand whose most intelligent haters tend to half-agree with... Read More

“There is a real mania in this city for horn and trumpet playing,” remarked the New Orleans Daily Picayune in 1838. “You... Read More

Christopher Nolan’s adaptation of Homer’s “The Odyssey,” out on July 17, is the most hotly awaited sword-and-sandal... Read More

David Bowie haunts the periphery of my childhood. A memory persists, circa 1983, of an elegantly turned-out man of indeterminate age, his... Read More

Pocket symphony: a phrase popularized by an ad-man (Derek Taylor)—a press-man, anyway; journalist, publisher, and... Read More

For decades, “Wall Street” was America’s all-purpose byword for capitalist villainy. “Big tech” is now running... Read More

There have been few writers as prolifically désengagé as Georges Simenon, the author of nearly two hundred absorbing, intensely... Read More

I finally got around to reading Michel Houellebecq’s The Elementary Particles. I’d already read Submission and Whatever, which... Read More

Leisa Mari Bekkers lives in New South Wales, where she is raising two teenagers she describes as her life’s work. Aged 14 and 19,... Read More

“The duty of every revolutionary is to make the revolution.” Every New Leftist in the late 1960s was familiar with that axiom,... Read More

Even great economists can make poor or incomplete arguments. George Stigler, a titan of the Chicago school alongside luminaries like Milton... Read More

July 1959: Paul Celan and his family are vacationing in the Swiss Alps. They’re in Sils Maria, where the poet’s beloved Nietzsche... Read More

The Guardian has released a list of the “100 best novels published in English” (which makes room for translated literature such... Read More

Life can feel overwhelming when you’re a teenager. Your physique is changing dramatically while at the same time your emotions are... Read More

Was the liberalism that informed America’s founding rationalistic, individualistic, and godless? Many intellectuals and commentators... Read More

Last week, a Twitter user called SHL0MS posted the image above with the heading, “i just generated an image in the style of a Monet... Read More

“I’m pregnant. Will that be OK?”  Léa Seydoux wasn’t sure if the timing was right at all.... Read More