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Glen Hansard was, first and foremost, a live performer. The Irish folk rock legend’s life was tragically cut short this week at the age... Read More

After holding a developmental reading of a play I have been working on about a fictional transhumanist and his world, I was able to briefly... Read More

County Highway, a bi-monthly magazine about America in the form of a 19th century newspaper, has published a book that celebrates America to... Read More

Before shooting up Mother Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, S.C., in 2015, Dylann Roof "spent months visiting local museums and plantations... Read More

“Say man, you got a joint?” a stoner played by Matthew McConaughey asks a high schooler in Richard Linklater’s “Dazed... Read More

The new Charli xcx album closes with an address from David Cronenberg, who slowly enunciates what it’s like to almost die. “As I... Read More

American race relations are at a crossroads. In the years since our current racial bargain was struck in the 1960s, our country has coped... Read More

Of Pascal’s famous wager on the existence of God, Denis Diderot dryly remarked, nearly a century later, “Pascal says: If your... Read More

CHRISTOPHER NOLAN’S new adaptation of Homer’s Odyssey opens in the royal court of Ithaca. Surrounded by the numerous suitors of... Read More

Many wonder why I go on about Bards all the time. Here’s the thing: I’m a big fan of the Druid tradition reconstructed in Wales... Read More

When Christopher Nolan began work on his adaption of The Odyssey, he turned to a source he felt could best help him capture the Greek poem... Read More

Quentin Tarantino has semi-famously insisted that the 1980s represent a nadir for Hollywood filmmaking, his least favorite decade in the... Read More

The last pre-covid exhibition at the gallery Reena Spaulings Fine Art in downtown New York was titled Paint-It-Yourself. The exhibit, showing... Read More

In his book By the Dawn’s Early Light, Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts paints a picture of a not-so-recent American... Read More

American Quartet was originally commissioned to serve as part of the celebration of our nation’s semiquincentennial. The poems were... Read More

I remember it well: working hard during those hot Georgia summers. Memory tends to preserve certain things whole, like insects caught in... Read More

What happens when a writer finally loses their mind and decides to write a book anyway? While I doubt Mark Haber has lost his mind, or that... Read More

“In the end,” the omniscient narrator of 1984 explains, “the Party would announce that two and two made five, and you would... Read More

Perhaps it was the stultifying heat wave that swept through the Mid-Atlantic in early July, making the couch in my air-conditioned living... Read More

Each morning I wake up and go to the beach1, without crowds or sticky salt water. After a short swim, because I’m not much of a beach... Read More

EARLY IN 2023, the theater historian Charles O’Malley and I circulated a nonfiction book proposal to publishers. Our book, we wrote,... Read More

On average, Gen Zers say they’d need to earn a salary of $600,000 per year to feel financially successful. That’s around 13... Read More

The differences are immediately obvious. When you cross through the other side of the looking glass into rural or “Real” America,... Read More

In 1940, rumours of secret passageways to an old manor lured four teenage boys into a hole in the ground near the village of Montignac in... Read More

Emily Wilson is doing something Odysseus only managed once: The British scholar is embarking on her second voyage through The Odyssey. Read More

Even by the arcane standards of soccer songs and chants, the Argentine team’s locker room number required some explanation.... Read More

It’s easy to feel that you’ve arrived at The Vampire Lestat both a little early and a little late. Lestat is the third season of... Read More

ONE OR TWO THINGS ABOUT the ghost: they are disruptive, usually desperate. They test the borders of the corporeal and invite the living to... Read More

Saint Augustine’s political analysis of the city of man and the city of God structures Pope Leo’s XIV’s first encyclical... Read More

The cultural consensus is that Gen Z is miserable. Today’s young people are lost and stagnant—and for good reason, too. You see,... Read More