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Birds, Beasts and Flowers (1923), D. H. Lawrence’s most monumental yet also strangest collection of poems, is a book of the... Read More

Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another depicts the desperate soul-searching of aging revolutionaries: Should we... Read More

While it’s likely enough that you’ve encountered tales of rivalries between best friends or biting portraits of coastal arts... Read More

The critic Alan Richman once gave Anthony Bourdain’s alma mater restaurant, Brasserie Les Halles, which was in New York’s... Read More

One of my earliest NBA memories is standing in a Muskogee Mazzio’s, gripping an empty plate, and watching Michael Jordan hit a... Read More

It started with the memes. People in the online know were all reading the tweets of Bronze Age Pervert. Quoting from neo-Nietzschean... Read More

Anika Jade Levy, the downtown writer and founding editor of Forever Magazine, describes Avery, the narrator of her debut... Read More

ONCE I WAS TRYING TO EXPLAIN my theory of a “perfect” movie and how it differed from “the best” movies. The... Read More

Our series of reflections on the place of the humanities in graduate education continues with this exchange between Point founding... Read More

Dear Republic, You might know Clare Ashcraft as the author of our most popular piece ever, “Gen Z is Worse Than You Think.” I was... Read More

I FOUND IT. These words were written in large black paint on the white wall of our yearbook office in high school. The phrase, both... Read More

“I fucked up,” SZA tells me. It’s been about a month and a half since the singer returned home to Los Angeles after... Read More

Minor Black Figures is Brandon Taylor’s third and, to my mind, best novel. Its main character, Wyeth, is a painter who enters into... Read More

In the summer of 2024, Deep Vellum, a Dallas-based press, announced a program to bring out “badass avant-garde masterpieces that would... Read More

It is a golden afternoon in autumn. The sun, high in the western sky, warms the soil and casts the fading harvest in hues of yellow and... Read More

I don’t remember reading any great novels in the ‘90s. Or listening to any good albums, either. It’s not the decade’s... Read More

When I interviewed the Christian conservative writer Rod Dreher last year, I tried to push him on what I saw as the clear... Read More

The notice arrived on Halloween. Thank you for being a valued Microsoft 365 subscriber. To reflect the value we’ve added over the past... Read More

I have written about many fiction journals over the last few months. I’ve written about Esquire, where Gordon Lish began his... Read More

Early on in Anika Jade Levy’s satirical debut novel, “Flat Earth,” two young women named Avery and Frances bond over their... Read More

When Plato was an infant, bees alighted on his lips and, nestling there, set about making honey. His parents had placed him, sleeping, on the... Read More

For three decades now, the director Kelly Reichardt has been making films about American escape artists: drifters and dreamers, rough... Read More

William F. Buckley Jr once quipped that he would rather be governed by the first 2,000 names in the Boston phone book than by the Harvard... Read More

Literature loves to celebrate rescue as salvation. From Greek myth and the Bible through medieval romance, saving someone is framed as heroic... Read More

When I took my Birthright trip to Israel, I was surprised to learn that no one makes a more ghastly Holocaust joke than the IDF soldiers... Read More

You’ve probably noticed that many people are saying we’re in an AI bubble. “OpenAI’s Sam Altman sees AI bubble... Read More

Muriel Spark was a superstitious writer. In a 1971 BBC documentary, she explains her relationship with her pens. “If by accident... Read More