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Nov 27, 2025
This month’s Food & Wine magazine suggests three “chef-upgrade” Thanksgiving pies — cranberry lime curd, fudge-drizzled “chess,” and sweet...
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Nov 19, 2025
Flat Earth, the debut novel published this month by Anika Jade Levy, is the latest entry in a genre that purports to capture the experience of young, elite, female, internet-poisoned...
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Oct 15, 2025
When I converted to Catholicism in 2023 after eighteen months of RCIA, I was almost totally ignorant of the mortal sins I would need to confess before taking communion. My RCIA...
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Oct 9, 2025
The great insoluble conflict of modern womanhood — what if you want to work and raise a family — might be going away, a little, thanks to the rapidly declining birthrate....
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Oct 1, 2025
The seafaring-adventure-story has been a foundational American text as early as Herman Melville, and Alice, or The Wild Girl, a debut novel by Michael Robert Liska, presents a...
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Sep 3, 2025
My dream print-magazine would be called something like Dish & Tabletop Fancier and it would be thick as 90s Vogue and inspirational—not...
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Aug 6, 2025
The required summer reading for rising ninth graders at my son’s public high school in Brooklyn this year is a choice of the following: Unwind, a work of dystopian science...
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Jul 24, 2025
In A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century, Barbara Tuchman wrote that the “people of the Middle Ages existed under mental, moral and physical circumstances so different...
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Jul 23, 2025
A small but powerful literary sub-genre is the novel of pagan intoxication breaking forth in a modern, secular milieu. Donna Tartt’s The Secret History and John...
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Jul 14, 2025
Coming from a good writer, a book of gratuitous and loathsome badness demands an explanation. The Stalker by Paula Bomer, is such a book. Bomer is best known for...
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Jul 4, 2025
Last fall, Natasha started using ChatGPT to manage her adult son’s mental health needs. A crisis had sent him to a month-long residential program. Her son has learning...
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May 6, 2025
One of the speakers in The Symposium, Plato’s great dialogue on the characteristics of love, makes the point that what is “done well and rightly” is...
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May 2, 2025
There’s been a recent trend of writers, mostly men, asserting the need for a new kind of fiction writing that will supposedly fix the publishing industry and draw in new...
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Apr 24, 2025
In 2017, during the first wave of #MeToo, I was reluctantly noncompliant. On several occasions, I was approached by journalists to participate in stories about accused men in media,...
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Apr 4, 2025
What does it take to get a fantasy novel published these days, if not a famous name and a great manuscript? Judging by The Falcon’s Children, a high epic fantasy by...
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Apr 1, 2025
Amanda Knox starts off her new memoir, Free: My Search for Meaning, with a barbed anecdote: her mother told her once when she was a child that she would have “an extraordinary...
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Mar 27, 2025
The zany and joyous female embrace of an extreme kind of porn-scripted sexuality is a new literary trend, or maybe a new life trend, seen recently in Miranda July’s All Fours,...
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Mar 25, 2025
In a final scene of ­Dorothy Sayers’s 1930 novel Strong ­Poison, a murderer devours a large quantity of Turkish delight in the parlor of Lord ­Peter Wimsey,...
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Mar 6, 2025
Twenty-six-year-old Miles Yardley — formerly known in downtown New York City as a musician, influencer, and model named Salomé — publicly renounced his trans...
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Feb 27, 2025
I used to play a game when I lived in Moscow in my early twenties. I would see how deep into a flirtation I could get while pretending to be a Russian girl; in actuality, I am...
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Feb 19, 2025
‘Most people live in a crackpot world where the sky is green,” Curtis Yarvin wrote recently. And while “most people,” of course, don’t, extremists on...
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Feb 18, 2025
The writer Elizabeth Ellen earned my admiration in October of 2022 when, as the Deputy Editor of literary journal Hobart Pulp, she defied the then-reigning orthodoxy of cancellations...
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Feb 14, 2025
During the Super Bowl, some 127 million viewers witnessed an up-close parade of gleamy-creamy jiggling breasts covered in cantaloupe-colored spandex as part of an advertisement for ....
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Feb 13, 2025
The Japanese writer Yukio Mishima, who lived from 1925 to 1970, styled himself as an “aesthetic terrorist,” and carried out one actual act of terror in 1970, leading a...
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Jan 24, 2025
In an opening chapter of Moby-Dick, Herman Melville captures the American scene in the whaling village of New Bedford, Mass. There are “savages outright, many of whom yet...
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Jan 16, 2025
In 2005 I married a man whose detailed thoughts about parenting, childcare and family life I knew very little about. We’d agreed that we wanted children—or, rather,...
Nov 27, 2025This month’s Food & Wine magazine suggests three “chef-upgrade” Thanksgiving pies — cranberry lime curd, fudge-drizzled “chess,” and sweet...
Nov 19, 2025Flat Earth, the debut novel published this month by Anika Jade Levy, is the latest entry in a genre that purports to capture the experience of young, elite, female, internet-poisoned...
Oct 15, 2025When I converted to Catholicism in 2023 after eighteen months of RCIA, I was almost totally ignorant of the mortal sins I would need to confess before taking communion. My RCIA...
Oct 9, 2025The great insoluble conflict of modern womanhood — what if you want to work and raise a family — might be going away, a little, thanks to the rapidly declining birthrate....
Oct 1, 2025The seafaring-adventure-story has been a foundational American text as early as Herman Melville, and Alice, or The Wild Girl, a debut novel by Michael Robert Liska, presents a...
Sep 3, 2025My dream print-magazine would be called something like Dish & Tabletop Fancier and it would be thick as 90s Vogue and inspirational—not...
Aug 6, 2025The required summer reading for rising ninth graders at my son’s public high school in Brooklyn this year is a choice of the following: Unwind, a work of dystopian science...
Jul 24, 2025In A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century, Barbara Tuchman wrote that the “people of the Middle Ages existed under mental, moral and physical circumstances so different...
Jul 23, 2025A small but powerful literary sub-genre is the novel of pagan intoxication breaking forth in a modern, secular milieu. Donna Tartt’s The Secret History and John...
Jul 14, 2025Coming from a good writer, a book of gratuitous and loathsome badness demands an explanation. The Stalker by Paula Bomer, is such a book. Bomer is best known for...
Jul 4, 2025Last fall, Natasha started using ChatGPT to manage her adult son’s mental health needs. A crisis had sent him to a month-long residential program. Her son has learning...
May 6, 2025One of the speakers in The Symposium, Plato’s great dialogue on the characteristics of love, makes the point that what is “done well and rightly” is...
May 2, 2025There’s been a recent trend of writers, mostly men, asserting the need for a new kind of fiction writing that will supposedly fix the publishing industry and draw in new...
Apr 24, 2025In 2017, during the first wave of #MeToo, I was reluctantly noncompliant. On several occasions, I was approached by journalists to participate in stories about accused men in media,...
Apr 4, 2025What does it take to get a fantasy novel published these days, if not a famous name and a great manuscript? Judging by The Falcon’s Children, a high epic fantasy by...
Apr 1, 2025Amanda Knox starts off her new memoir, Free: My Search for Meaning, with a barbed anecdote: her mother told her once when she was a child that she would have “an extraordinary...
Mar 27, 2025The zany and joyous female embrace of an extreme kind of porn-scripted sexuality is a new literary trend, or maybe a new life trend, seen recently in Miranda July’s All Fours,...
Mar 6, 2025Twenty-six-year-old Miles Yardley — formerly known in downtown New York City as a musician, influencer, and model named Salomé — publicly renounced his trans...
Feb 18, 2025The writer Elizabeth Ellen earned my admiration in October of 2022 when, as the Deputy Editor of literary journal Hobart Pulp, she defied the then-reigning orthodoxy of cancellations...
Feb 13, 2025The Japanese writer Yukio Mishima, who lived from 1925 to 1970, styled himself as an “aesthetic terrorist,” and carried out one actual act of terror in 1970, leading a...
Jan 16, 2025In 2005 I married a man whose detailed thoughts about parenting, childcare and family life I knew very little about. We’d agreed that we wanted children—or, rather,...