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Midway through Stop All the Clocks, the cheeky and elusive debut novel from Noah Kumin, we encounter something unexpected in a... Read More

I first realized there was a new use for my face when I got my passport renewed in November 2023. I went to the local CVS to have my photo... Read More

THE NIGHT AFTER I finished reading The Möbius Book, I woke up from a terrible dream. In this dream I had been shrunk back to... Read More

The Mexican writer Cristina Rivera Garza has been writing for decades. Her 2021 book, El invencible verano de Liliana tells the... Read More

ADAM ROSS’S NEW NOVEL, Playworld, offers readers a glimpse at the hollowness of promises, from the nuclear family to the presidential... Read More

“When we are no longer willing to die for the truth, there will be no truth anymore,” conservative German philosopher Peter... Read More

Higher education is much in the news, but the central challenge that colleges and universities are failing to meet is receiving hardly any... Read More

I. A few weeks ago, in the chaos of a Trader Joe’s parking lot, I found a stranger’s grocery list stuck to my windshield. It was... Read More

In Wisconsin, a middle-aged man lies awake at night, haunted by memories of his dead friends. The friends were similar to him: working-class... Read More

This article contains spoilers for Superman. In a field outside a small American town, a mysterious object falls from the sky. A... Read More

“Anything you regret about your presidency?” So asked Ben Meiselas of the MeidasTouch podcast of Joe Biden in December in a rare... Read More

In her new poetry collection, Before the Forest Burns (Kelsay Books, 2025), Leslie Monsour works as a poet-archeologist, using... Read More

My initial interview with Tao Lin began as a questionnaire, much like the kind I publish on my personal Substack. I found the writer’s... Read More

ONCE, AS A CHILD, I had visions. This took place in a children’s hospital decorated with murals of sea creatures. During the... Read More

It is no secret that Americans enjoy violence. What Raymond Chandler called “the simple art of murder” remains a constant source... Read More

We may be facing a future without magazines, at least glossy ones, and passing into an era of disembodied media entities — an unholy... Read More

For years now, I’ve had an on-again, off-again relationship with the world of what my editor dubbed “White Collar PEDs,” or... Read More

The weather is warm, the pool is calling, and lifeguards are reporting for duty all across America, along with camp counselors, ice cream... Read More

If you could be a one-trick pony, but that one trick was really amazing, would you take it? After labouring through the first season... Read More

I’m sitting in a meditation class at a yoga studio in Chicago, neon lights pulsing pink and purple while the instructor talks over a... Read More

There’s a pressure in talking about sex to make it about something else. I do it myself in my own work — when I write about... Read More

It is the classic agony aunt question. Your friend’s husband is having a fling: should you tell her? No, says her upper-middle-class... Read More

IT HAS TAKEN months to get here. Months of waiting, for Joel Embiid to play, for him not to play, for him to decide what, if... Read More

Six months into the pandemic, Trai Morrison and his husband, Andy Dvorak, did what so many of us dreamed of doing: They bought a place in... Read More

When Sam Tanenhaus agreed in 1998 to write a biography of William F. Buckley Jr., it would have been hard to name an American who deserved... Read More

WINDY GUSTS and cloudy skies are a welcome chaser to Brooklyn’s latest heat wave, but there’s an uneasiness between strangers... Read More