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Toward the end of Woody Allen’s 2008 film Vicky Cristina Barcelona, the stormy painter Maria Elena is leaving. But where will she go?... Read More

Ifirst read Nancy Lemann on the recommendation of a friend. This—especially in a time of targeted ads and the bludgeoning... Read More

It’s not often that we get a ringside seat to the Birth of a Narrative. Usually, those overseeing the parturition are careful to manage... Read More

Americans have long expressed their political preferences at the ballot box and their economic preferences with moving vans. Increasingly,... Read More

A writer receives a letter from her high school teacher, who married the writer’s high school sweetheart. A professional Brad Pitt... Read More

Let me put some numbers behind a trend you might have noticed: More than ten major musical artists have outright canceled their tours in... Read More

A potentially sweeping reform to K-12 education beginning in January is forcing Democratic governors to weigh the political risks of joining... Read More

It’s been a decade or more since Jordan Peterson became famous telling the world that most papers don’t get cited and that... Read More

THEY ALL HOLD their breath when Josh Allen goes rogue. They can always see it coming. He'll be a little laggy at the start of a game,... Read More

ANTON JÄGER’S Hyperpolitics: Extreme Politicization Without Political Consequences (2026) is a strange book: too short to offend,... Read More

It is the big new fear in AI development: coldly rational minds pretending to be good, while doing something else entirely. But who is really... Read More

On February 27, 2026, hundreds of well-paid employees at OpenAI, joined by over a thousand at Google, publicly backed Anthropic’s... Read More

Too many American colleges treat political debate as if it were a toxic lab experiment, something that can only be permitted under strict... Read More

Ion Stoica is a Romanian-American computer scientist and Professor at the University of California, Berkeley. As cofounder of the unicorns... Read More

Carlo Rovelli is now 70 and these two books have the air of closing arguments. Then again, all his books sound like closing arguments and he... Read More

“MR. BLOOM READ with relish the lustrous verses of Blake and Shelley,” I am tempted to write, since Harold Bloom, the author of... Read More

In the early 1980s, an adolescent Eduardo Halfon, then living in Florida with his parents after fleeing the violence of the Guatemalan Civil... Read More

The first time he sees it, a chord is struck inside him. He is overcome by a kind of excitement he has no words for. Read More

If you tell people, “Annie Dillard has died,” most of them will say, “I don’t know who that is.” And... Read More

A flurry of researchers had issued warnings, but Donald Trump was not to be moved. The idea that advanced AI could escape human control, the... Read More

The Book of Esther in the Age of Rembrandt is the brilliant, edifying new exhibition at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston. I... Read More

In 2012, literature scholar Nicholas Dames identified a group of writers—among them Jeffrey Eugenides, Jonathan Franzen, Jennifer Egan,... Read More

I am at the airport gate waiting to depart, watching passengers hurry past with rolling suitcases and paper cups of coffee. A small boy sits... Read More

Ancient Egyptians believed that the sun was a golden barge piloted by the god Ra. Each day, he traversed the twelve regions of the daylight... Read More

The artist Jake Longstreth paints landscapes of America, often the West and Southwest, with their distinctive vegetation, deserts, and... Read More

Yesterday, Naomi Kanaka wrote a thing about my first book, The Aesthetics of Degradation. I’m flattered – you have to be... Read More

Midwestern Death Trip opens with quotes collected in Wisconsin Death Trip. Pulled from the local papers in Black River Falls, Wisconsin,... Read More

As Far As You Know, published in the spring of the pandemic year 2020, was A.F. Moritz’s first collection of poems since The Sparrow... Read More

I was a bop kid from the start. When Eric Carmen, the talented lead singer of the Raspberries, wrote “I’m a rocker, I’m a... Read More

In Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, the “monster” begins as a creature whose maker abdicates his catechetical responsibility.... Read More

Anglophone poets are accustomed to enjoying an essentially uncomplicated and blameless relationship with their language. Every tongue is a... Read More

We all help our kids follow their dreams—when they’re not far-fetched. So what was I to do with a son who throws baseball’s... Read More

One of the many splendid things about Zach Cregger’s “Weapons” is that it was a horror film made with humanity. It... Read More