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Almost a decade has passed since Michael Phelps set the world alight on the Olympic stage at Rio 2016, when he took home the most medals of... Read More

One of the year’s bestselling books contains a pivotal sex scene in which a time-traveling tradwife finds her impotent husband... Read More

It’s none of your business why, but I’ve been planning a party. The idea was to get some caterers in to cook something over live... Read More

On May 13, a prestigious literary organization — Commonwealth Foundation — announced the regional winners of the 2026... Read More

Obsession is a nifty little horror movie. Genuinely disturbing, and exhausting, it seems destined to become a midnight movie classic, if we... Read More

On June 14, Free Speech Advocate Greg Lukianoff, President of the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE) and co-author of The... Read More

Curry Barker, a 26-year-old YouTuber-turned-filmmaker, made his horror film “Obsession” in just 20 days on a mere $750,000 budget. Read More

In September of last year, Fable CEO and A.I. acolyte, Edward Saatchi, appeared on CNBC to peddle a new product called Showrunner, an app... Read More

“Should I use AI?” is a question that probably every writer on Earth has asked themselves in the last couple of years. ROL has... Read More

In America, the poor cling to their guns and bibles, as then-Senator Barack Obama controversially observed in 2008. Except, in the fictional... Read More

There’s a set of books that you’ve probably already heard of. These are the ones that’ve been extolled by professors and... Read More

Another memoirist has been outed as a fabulist, poor thing. This time the offending writer is Belle Burden, a well-born wife and mother whose... Read More

Michael DeForge might be the patron cartoonist of the millennial laptop class. His comics are set in dreamy abstract landscapes and populated... Read More

I could tell it was getting bad when tech guys started talking about their “stacks.” They had sleep stacks, workout stacks,... Read More

RCP's David DesRosiers discusses the defeat of Rep. Thomas Massie, tension around Israel, and the "Californiafication Crazy" elections on the... Read More

New York Times v. Sullivan (1964), once revered as a landmark First Amendment ruling, has become controversial in recent years. Leading... Read More

In late 2023 the U.S. Senate ignited in a firestorm of controversy. Freshman senator John Fetterman had begun showing up to the job—and... Read More

Today feels like the end of an era for jazz fans. Something has changed—that’s the pervasive mood right now. And things will... Read More

The coming IPO for SpaceX matters less for its gargantuan size than because it marks a dramatic change in the tech sphere. The IPO has the... Read More

While museums are among New York’s crown jewels, I revere one above all others: the Metropolitan Museum of Art, which seemingly goes on... Read More

Barthelme was a Houstonian. To me this is the single most salient fact about him, though the competitors for that distinction are many: that... Read More

Though we didn’t know it at the time, the turn of the present century also marked the end of the album era. By which I mean a period... Read More

John Constable was born two and a half centuries ago on 11 June 1776, and to mark the occasion, Thames & Hudson has published a handsome... Read More

In his latest novel, Elegy in Blue, Mark Helprin, a novelist, essayist, and national security analyst, weaves a tale of sorrow, love, and... Read More

One of the strange political phenomena of our times is the return of socialism and Communism in our ideological discourse. Any number of... Read More

Last week, the (wonderfully named) French tech bro Brivael Le Pogam set X alight with an apology on behalf of his nation for having loosed... Read More

What do we want from our idols? Devotion to their ideals, of course, a keen sense of self-mythos, preferably an exalted capacity to live as... Read More

“What would you rank Timothée Chalamet?” Braden Eric Peters, aka “Clavicular”, a man who has spent years... Read More

Katherine Packert Burke’s second novel All Us Saints is structured like a chamber play. Trading in the autofictional, referential,... Read More

Here in Miami, you can see the smiles on faces everywhere. Ding-dong, the witch is dead! Or if not dead, at least indicted. I am referring,... Read More

There was a time when Cannes’ strangest species was the ‘Euro pudding’: prestige films assembled from several funding... Read More

In a famous passage of The Confessions, St. Augustine asks “What, then, is time? I know well enough what it is, provided that nobody... Read More

George Washington’s Farewell Address is, in effect, the culmination and fulfillment of the Declaration of Independence. Washington had... Read More

Sometimes known as the “Father of American illustration,” Howard Pyle (1853-1911) plays an enormous role in American art,... Read More

Reyna Grande’s immigrant history is grounded in loneliness, dislocation, a fractured birth family, psychological abuse, physical abuse,... Read More

READING WELLWATER, the sixth collection from Canadian poet Karen Solie, comes with a sense of late arrival. Solie’s collection was... Read More