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When writers mention “writing” or “literacy” these days, they tend to do it as part of an obituary. Man’s... Read More

Penny Lane looks like a fertility goddess reincarnated as a Sports Illustrated swimsuit model. But she hasn’t always looked so amazing.... Read More

Whenever a new technology drops, humans can tend to panic. In Plato’s Phaedrus (written in the fourth century BCE), Socrates... Read More

As Donald Trump goes after Harvard, one of the university’s most famous alums is back in the limelight with a new... Read More

Shoshana Walter’s Rehab: An American Scandal opens with the search for a body. But there are no homicide detectives on the scene.... Read More

When Allen C. Guelzo and James Hankins began writing The Golden Thread, their two-volume History of the Western Tradition, they... Read More

Around the corner from where I’m writing this in southern Stockholm, clean center at the dark heart of suburbia’s placid,... Read More

Over the years I’ve reviewed FDR’s house and presidential center, Coolidge’s museum and site, Andrew Jackson’s... Read More

The left loves to revise history—so does the right—and no author in recent times has been “revised” more than poor... Read More

America’s first all-you-can-eat buffet was never intended to sate appetites, but to reignite waning ones. Around the middle of the 20th... Read More

Although it wasn’t Sunday, my father didn’t go to work. I liked the day because we could spend it together and we would have a... Read More

For as long as I can remember, I’ve been mildly obsessed with space. It really took off when, around the age of seven, my parents... Read More

“It’s a complex business, going home,” says Colm Tóibín, the bard of the Irish diaspora, noted for eleven... Read More

I tell the taxi driver to floor it, the rare-book appraiser’s voice still burning in my ears. “There’s a copy in... Read More

Ken Griffin is pointing an outstretched arm toward his field of dreams. On this Wednesday afternoon in early February, the CEO of... Read More

There’s a particular genre of American art that shines a slatted light across the loneliest places in this ever-vast country, spaces in... Read More

Catholicism, and the conservative movement more generally, is currently facing a profound and unexpected dilemma. As they succeed in... Read More

After a public apology, Ye returns to music as a hollowed-out shell of his former self. Read More

Andrew Martin is a much-beloved downtown novelist based in New York. His first novel, Early Work, was called “marvelous” by the... Read More

Are you not entertained? Of course you are. We can barely move for entertainment. Songs, clips, memes, takes, games, reboots, thinkpieces,... Read More

How this story sits for you will depend on if you believe there to be a difference between a hustler and a gangster, and what you... Read More

Is it actually possible to fly too close to the sun? Like, we know air gets colder at higher altitudes—picture ice crystals forming on... Read More

Paul Kingsnorth has had an interesting career. He started as a radical environmental activist who once chained himself to a bridge to protest... Read More

As we sang “Auld Lang Syne” in the early morning minutes of January 1, 2025, the first American newborn of the year arrived to... Read More

Dawn and I learned that when you have a child with profound physical and intellectual disabilities, the end of public school — soon... Read More

Writers once liked to associate Novak Djokovic, the greatest male tennis player of all time, with inanimate objects. Some representative... Read More

On Saturday, Cassie and I watched the Red Sox take on the Reds at the Great American Ballpark. It was a crisp, sunny day, and we were... Read More

In my timelines, most of the literary discourse has been occupied with debates about the Shy Girl AI scandal in which... Read More

A couple years ago, a group of freshmen at a college in Massachusetts staged a To Catch a Predator-style sting of a so-called... Read More

HOW ARE OUR LIVES shaped and our worlds made by the languages we encounter every day? When we understand language to be a historical and... Read More

To research my New Yorker story piece, I had to read a lot of literary biographies. Most of these biographies are weighty tomes like Blake... Read More

At the 2026 Munich Security Conference, Secretary of State Marco Rubio delivered a rousing speech that was well-received both by... Read More

At the moment of Adam’s creation, God gave him dominion over all the living creatures of the earth. Adam’s first recorded act as... Read More