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The 20th century was an era of consolidation and centralisation. Power shifted away from localities, communities and families, moving ever... Read More

What is the future of Trumpism? “Melania,” the new documentary from Amazon, offers a striking answer. Following the first lady... Read More

As the documentary Melania prepared to debut on Friday, its promotional posters across Los Angeles were vandalized with graffiti... Read More

Sydney Sweeney arrived at her Cosmopolitan shoot armed with lingerie and conviction: She was ready to pose nearly naked... Read More

You may have heard of the recent (still not yet peer-reviewed) study at MIT that showed that students using Large Language Models... Read More

Imagine AI agents that can access your entire computer, email accounts, and trading accounts if you let them. The “agents” are... Read More

“Hell is empty,” declares Ariel in Shakespeare’s The Tempest, “and all the devils are here.” To imagine that... Read More

Banned as it’s been, everybody knows what The Bluest Eye is about: a little black girl who wishes she had blue eyes. That’s... Read More

The film adaptation of a well-known literary work is a deceptively complicated endeavor. While appropriating a great story might seem to ease... Read More

Lewis Pullman was not going to be the one to fuck this up. He knew how much was riding on this scene—how much of the indie film’s... Read More

At some point over the past 15 years, kids stopped reading. Or at least their teachers stopped asking them to read the way they once... Read More

There are two different approaches to speaking and writing. The first I’ll call “assertion as expression.” The idea behind... Read More

Two series in 2016, two paths for serial television. The first is Stranger Things. Stranger Things debuted on Netflix in the summer of... Read More

Bob Weir’s death was surprising but not a shock. Grateful Dead fans have had plenty of practice saying fare thee well to other band... Read More

Most of us, at least once, come to a moment when the contradictions between the world as we prefer to imagine it and the world as it... Read More

Many contemporary philosophers agree that Karl Popper (1902–1994) was one of the most influential 20th-century thinkers in their field.... Read More

Arriving to see Melania in the LGBT+ mecca that is Brighton, the cinema was practically empty. It’s a shame, because in theory the... Read More

If you think I am crazy for renting a car and driving three hours out of New York—through the Holland Tunnel, onto the New Jersey... Read More

The latest novel by Lionel Shriver, literary darling turned literary-world scourge, doesn’t come out until mid-February, and it’s... Read More

We’ve crunched the numbers, and in the history of one man looking at another man and thinking, Damn, I wish I could dress like that,... Read More

Last weekend, Winter Storm Fern brought forth snow, ice, bitter cold—and, for me, several long, wearying days in front of my computer. Read More

People have written numerous books about the Troubles between Britain and Ireland. Including, most recently, Philip... Read More

In 2022, Charlotte Gainsbourg brought her mother, Jane Birkin, to her deceased father’s apartment in Paris’s 7th arrondissement... Read More

At the very start of my career, I wrote a book called The Imperfect Art—and it’s still finding new readers today. Just last... Read More

Grab your remote controls, America, because it’s almost time for the Winter Olympics — a chance for you to see, in action, some... Read More

“Going to the movies always felt like something sacred.” That is how I opened my first Catholic Movie Club column back in June... Read More

What’s the best thing to do if you’re in a life-threatening emergency?In some cases … it’s to ignore your first... Read More

Looking to reorient U.S. energy policy toward fossil fuels and nuclear plants, President Trump has access to an enormous sum of money made... Read More