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“Twitter est mort,” Patricia Lockwood’s autofictional avatar declares late in her new novel, Will There Ever Be... Read More

We’re all very particular about what makes the perfect beach read. It has to be light – it can’t weigh too much in the hand... Read More

There’s a common myth in American culture that only the left is capable of producing great art. Right-wing art must be formulaic and... Read More

On August 18, Cracker Barrel released images of its new logo. Was it boring? Sure. Did one X user think it “looks dull as dirt and... Read More

Another academic year will bring a lot of debate about the nature of debate on college campuses. It is tempting to say that if the First... Read More

NEW ORLEANS, La. – On Friday, August 26, 2005, Hurricane Katrina was just another nuisance storm lurking in the Gulf of Mexico and... Read More

Imagine purchasing a new car in which all the components (from the headlights to the transmission to the steering wheel) were delivered in a... Read More

Movies are an endlessly miraculous medium when it comes to getting us to identify with people we don’t like and don’t approve of,... Read More

R. F. Kuang writes what she knows. The Poppy War fantasy trilogy, which she wrote as an undergrad at Georgetown and as a master’s... Read More

This summer, we asked you to tell us about the books you read in high school that profoundly affected you. It turns out you had... Read More

Ever noticed how your social media feed doesn’t sound like “independent thought” so much as a stadium of people chanting,... Read More

With football season creeping closer, sports broadcasters are preparing for record attention to the national pastime. Earlier this... Read More

IN MOLIÈRE’S PLAY Le Bourgeois gentilhomme, the hapless M. Jourdain, at last afforded the leisure to enjoy his new wealth,... Read More

The fine American teacher, writer, and literary critic Lionel Trilling of Columbia University died just fifty years ago. An agnostic Jew,... Read More

On a summer evening in downtown Manhattan, four professional women gather at a vegan restaurant to perform a ritual as old as consciousness... Read More

Want to be a writer? First, spend a minimum of $4,095 to travel to Guatemala, where you’ll be treated to a beachside massage and a... Read More

In the fall of 1972, John Williams—40 years old, the father of three teenagers, a serious, old-soul musician with nearly 20 years in... Read More

I was interviewed about Moby-Dick for a podcast the other day (keep an eye out for an episode of The World in Time,... Read More

Roadtripping through the South is an experience that I associate with empty Arizona cans, endless stretches of interstate, Spotify, the... Read More

Alex Muka’s Hell or Hangover marks the boisterous, exuberant return of the male gaze to those literary precincts from which... Read More

Hello and welcome to Many Such Cases. A good deal of you likely know me as somewhat of an anti-phone writer. This is something I’ve... Read More

The Calendar section in the Los Angeles Times used to be thick Monday through Saturday, and then near book-length on Sundays. So... Read More

Over Spike Lee’s more than 40 years of directing feature films — from his indie breakout She’s Gotta Have It (1986) to his... Read More