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I met Allie Tanner in November of 2016 at the Brooklyn reading series Franklin Park. The first words she ever said to me were “Are you... Read More

When a hurricane struck Florida in 2018, Christina’s neighborhood lost electricity, cell service and internet. For four weeks her... Read More

For a sport so full of stories, basketball is scarcely represented in literature, or at least literature for adults. When we do get a... Read More

If Bob Iger were a Marvel superhero, his power would be persuasion. The Disney CEO has long leaned on his ability to convince others of his... Read More

The morning after Catherine, the Princess of Wales, otherwise known as Kate Middleton, announced that she had cancer, the weather in London... Read More

There is a famous story about Elizabeth Anscombe, which kept drifting into my mind as I read Catherine Ruth Pakaluk’s new... Read More

For the third time in just over a century, the US is, once again, in the grip of a full-blown Red Scare. The home of the “communist... Read More

“I can’t believe I get to play the captain of the Enterprise.” Anson Mount is sitting across from me on one of the Toronto... Read More

Werner Herzog has lately turned to literature. He has always been a writer—his first books were published in the 1970s—but his... Read More

Inigo Philbrick awakens at dawn to see what the morning’s email will bring. Philbrick, 36, was once one of the most accomplished and... Read More

The Rick Rubin method: It’s not for everyone. Warm-voiced, flowing, bearded like a deity, the legendary record producer (nine Grammys)... Read More

Pete Rose never goes away. He’s still here in body, of course, now 82, surely this very second signing everything in sight at a... Read More

Dune: Part Two—the second installment of Denis Villeneuve’s planned trilogy based on the Frank Herbert science-fiction... Read More

The neuroscientist and podcaster Andrew Huberman is a famous guy in our weird, balkanized, digitized age. The millions of people... Read More

Thinkers from nearly every intellectual tradition agree that we live in an age when ideology dominates public life. Who or what we can... Read More

Our car smelled of the sulfurous hot springs. We spent the night on the side of a cliff, woke before sunrise and hiked six miles, soaked for... Read More

When Tu Fu—by common consent the supreme master of classical Chinese poetry, cynosure of all latecomers to that... Read More

Saint Sebastian by Sandro Botticelli is the first superlative nude in the history of Western painting.1 No male figure in art... Read More

The Internet is not what it was. In the beginning, the web was structured as a collection of open, decentralized protocols. This era, roughly... Read More

It’s 2019 and 28-year-old Jules Gold suffers from anxiety and internet addiction. (Who can relate?) She’s been living alone in... Read More

Along with about 15 other Oxford graduate students, I recently spent four days at an academic retreat in Rome. Although we stayed at a scenic... Read More

Jonathan Haidt opens The Anxious Generation with what is supposed to be an analogy for kids' use of smartphones and social media:... Read More

Like so many others, I first watched him speak on the night of the 2004 Democratic convention, the year John Kerry became the nominee. He was... Read More

When I was younger, my aspiring writer friends and I would debate “would you rathers.” Would you rather have a bestseller or win... Read More

If you somehow haven’t heard: Beyoncé’s Cowboy Carter, her eighth studio album and the much-anticipated sequel to... Read More

“Friends, what’s a good dupe for that beautiful Khaite cardigan I definitely can’t afford?” one person asked on a... Read More

Once in a great while an essay appears that gets to the heart of the matter. It’s rarer and rarer these days to see this kind of... Read More

John Gray, emeritus professor of European thought at the London School of Economics, was a postliberal long before the label came into vogue.... Read More

The fictional Pittsfield, Massachusetts, native Mack Bolan first appeared in Don Pendleton’s 1969 novel The Executioner #1: War... Read More

Three sets of couples intersect in Ethan Coen’s Drive-Away Dolls. The first is the film’s main duo: Jamie (Margaret Qualley) and... Read More