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One of the wildest stories out of Silicon Valley is, alas, a rumor. Allegedly, some of the valley’s denizens are worshipping artificial... Read More

“Hamlet Returns.” “Gatsby II: Carraway’s Revenge.” “Casablanca: The Vichy Years.” It’s funny... Read More

In a world in which grade inflation is rampant on college and university campuses, it is more than a little amusing to see that the... Read More

How do you write a modern monster? Do you create a whimpering beast, as Guillermo del Toro did in his film adaptation of Mary Shelley’s... Read More

Eugene Wu recently started his fourth year as a patient of Cliffside Rehabilitation in Queens, New York. He has little hope of ever leaving.... Read More

Twentieth-century American literature has a tradition of writers exiling themselves to Paris, from Lost Generation icons like Ernest... Read More

One of the great pleasures of Mission: Impossible (1996) is watching Tom Cruise rip off the mask of an older, uglier man to reveal the... Read More

Mark Z. Danielewski published his new novel Tom’s Crossing in October of last year, so there is a way in which this text comes late,... Read More

The human soul: an old-fashioned term, sworling with the patina and shine of an antique. To take such a thing seriously in this age of... Read More

“If I pick up my phone and send out a Tweet,” Senator Ted Cruz remarked at a Hagee Ministries event last year, “within... Read More

The oceans’ vastness can feel ominous, and though scientists have studied what lurks beneath, so much remains unknown. In... Read More

Andrew Garfield is now in his early 40s, but when he lollops around with his rubber limbs flapping every which way and a happy-go-lucky smile... Read More

When Chateau Royale opened in New York City last year, it embodied the city’s rising “swankstaurant” moment, in which the... Read More

Macklin Celebrini’s Range Rover is missing. The 20-year-old Vancouver-born hockey phenom—a center on the San Jose Sharks—is... Read More

The incidents that more than anything else fixed the image of rogue AIs in the public mind — the Anthropic model that blackmailed an... Read More

For more than a thousand years, the intellectual core of the Western world was held captive by a single institution: the medieval Catholic... Read More

In 2020, the entertainment mogul Jeffrey Katzenberg brought to life an idea that must have seemed — in the flash of its conception... Read More

I always thought that the reason museums west of the Mississippi and inland from California didn’t have top Old Masters and... Read More

ThREE MEN ARE OUT RAFTING on the Colorado River together: an activist, a government servant, and a journalist. This is not a setup for a... Read More

In my final year as an undergraduate at Trinity College Dublin in 2007, a friend signed me up to a new social network. She filled out all the... Read More

For a period during the first half of this decade – ecstatic and life-affirming and over all too soon – I found myself living... Read More

Because I’m going to be quite critical of Theo Baker’s How to Rule the World, it feels only right to start with three pieces of... Read More

The tomb is in the crypt, beneath two vast churches stacked one on top of the other, beneath Giotto, beneath Cimabue, beneath an acre of... Read More

Higher education today is reeling from multiple crises. From the incursion of artificial intelligence into the classroom, to the crackdown on... Read More

Whenever I find myself in London, the first thing I do is go to the London Review Bookshop, down the street from the British Museum in... Read More

During the rare, vanishing cool days this summer, I woke up early and sat by the open window and read novels—Muñoz Molina,... Read More

CRITICS, AT LEAST IN THE DALLAS AREA where I live, were asked to promise not to reveal plot points about Digger on social media or in their... Read More

Americans have a lot of misconceptions about the rich. This becomes clear when you read The Everywhere Millionaire by Owen Zidar and Eric... Read More

Victor Davis Hanson calls Donald Trump’s experience between January 2021 and January 2025 the greatest comeback in American political... Read More

Late in Ben Lerner's 2014 novel 10:04, a Lerner-like professor of poetry meets with a graduate student who he suspects is having a mental... Read More

I believe this is a Northern Water Snake, at any rate very young, the thickness of my ring finger. He wants to be a big snake. Like the young... Read More

Well Walk and the last dregs of a tireless November. John had given over his mornings, his afternoons, what was left of his evenings, to the... Read More

I didn’t really register the now-ubiquitous phrase Weird Girl Lit until this spring, when Kate Folk, author of Sky Daddy, mentioned it... Read More