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Matthew Gasda’s Stranger Beauty opens with M, a former playwright in New York City, waking up from a nap while his young daughter Ruby... Read More

“For years rambling men had sheltered in the trees along the roadways,” Grace Krilanovich writes toward the end of her sly and... Read More

The title of Guillermo Stitch’s last novel was Lake of Urine. His latest is The Coast of Everything. Clearly the man is a fan of... Read More

This week I’m excited to be chatting with Adam Wilson, an old friend whose hilarious and heartfelt new novel Fail Sons is out in stores... Read More

To say it’s no Demon Copperhead hardly seems fair. But that’s the unenviable starting point for Barbara Kingsolver’s new... Read More

“A good coat of paint can hide a multitude of sins,” a time-tested adage maintains. Unless that paint happens to be... Read More

It was Francis Bacon, the statesman and theorist of science, whose Essayes, published in 1597, introduced the concept into English prose.... Read More

The tech-rationalist phenomenon “SlutCon” caused quite a stir online, perhaps predictably. SlutCon was a multi-day retreat and... Read More

A philosophical book on Agatha Christie may seem slightly odd at first: wasn’t she just a great novelist who wrote mysteries? Read More

Cassandra may have been beautiful — Homer described her as the fairest of Trojan king Priam’s daughters — but we know her... Read More

There are two kinds of love of country, Alexis de Tocqueville observed in Democracy in America. The first is a “sort of patriotic... Read More

Most Americans think of mosquito-borne diseases such as malaria, yellow fever, and dengue as problems that affect people in other countries,... Read More

When I was a young man and read a lot about philosophy I came across Stephen Jay Gould’s concept of “non-overlapping... Read More

I always feel better about my day when it starts with a smoothie instead of a breakfast sandwich. When it comes to peak writing mode, some... Read More

For young white American men, building a successful career in fiction has become something like trying to kick water uphill.  Read More

Giles Martin, son of the Beatles’ celebrated producer, George Martin, has remixed Rubber Soul. The result, which follows similar work... Read More

When reading the news, you may occasionally be bemused by the flip-flopping science and health stories: one week you’re told coffee is... Read More

I think it’s very rare, maybe unique to our times, that people should brag about being crazy. Some do it to prove they’re... Read More

WHEN I BEGAN commuting by train to Chicago two decades ago, nearly all my fellow passengers read the newspaper. I watched them turn the pages... Read More

It started with a tiny blue bottle next to the cash register at a 7-Eleven. The year was 2023. Colin was a college student in Los Angeles and... Read More

There’s been a lot of talk in recent days about the various crises plaguing our existence. The bond-price crisis. The Iranian crisis.... Read More

There is something so exhilarating and disturbing about Digger that some people may elect to dismiss it as chaos, or out of control, and a... Read More

Rich Baris has fired a warning shot. The self-proclaimed 'people's pundit' and director of BIG DATA POLL insists that young Americans are fed... Read More

What’s next for Tom Cruise? The actor, now in his 60s, is showing no signs of slowing down—not that anyone thought he’d... Read More

In 1960, a country boy named Glen Campbell showed up in Los Angeles with a guitar, a pompadour hairdo, and a lean, hungry look. He was... Read More

The novel has always been obsessed with technology. You can trace realist fiction’s evolution along advances in religion, banking,... Read More

Scholars, journalists, and commentators are pretty typical conference guests. Babies? Not so much. But there were quite a few babies at The... Read More

During the first year of the gilets jaunes protests, I taught English in France. By the time I arrived during that impossibly hot August in... Read More

Over the past two decades, in the name of “equity,” elite institutions moved to disassemble everything they had spent years... Read More

You may have heard already that Digger, the new film cowritten and directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu (The... Read More

It's 2019, and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D–N.Y.) is in a video. It shows her dancing on a rooftop with friends. Everyone on... Read More

Published in 1942, Albert Camus’s The Stranger is a staple of francophone literature, with French newspaper Le Monde ranking it number... Read More