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The year before I got married, I moved back in with my parents. It was among the worst and longest years of my life. The arrangement was... Read More

"People were writing poems," Patricia Lockwood tells us. Also: "People brought you cabbages." In her hands, events don't unfold in the usual... Read More

What would you expect from a book by a political journalist that contains the following passage? I had thought it a blessing and still do... Read More

AI is just the latest advancement to be wrongly compared to the human mind. Read More

“Culture is stuck? I’ve heard this one before.” You haven’t heard this one, but I see why you’d think... Read More

Jennifer Lawrence is one of the most widely admired and well accoladed actors on the planet: she was the world’s highest-paid woman in... Read More

“It was a vast space, perhaps sixty by eighty feet, but with the same eight-foot ceiling bearing down on your head. It was an... Read More

The great unsung “sliding doors” moment in the history of ’90s rock begins in the summer of 1993. Radiohead... Read More

During my twenties, my friends would circle constantly circle around the same topic. They would ask, “Should I go for a career that... Read More

We’re back at it again with our annual Winter Book List. Pick up some of these books so you can curl up in your lil bed while hiding... Read More

Since most of you will already be familiar with the mighty Andrew Boryga, I can give a different introduction here than I put in... Read More

I first noticed “Fuck Kirk” scrawled in faded green Sharpie at a bus stop near campus, a few days before he died. In November,... Read More

Sometime in the 11th century AD, in the monastery of Monte Cassino, 80 miles southeast of Rome, a monk carefully and diligently copied from... Read More

IT’S 2025, and the turn to genre is old news. Since at least the 1980s, writers of “literary fiction” have been adopting... Read More

Gertrude Stein had no doubt that she was a genius. “I have been the creative literary mind of the century,” she once boasted.... Read More

The trouble with nostalgia is that it appears to rewire our minds, bringing only pleasant memories to the forefront of our consciousness. It... Read More

In June 1951, British novelist Graham Greene was cruising round the Mediterranean in a luxury yacht, the guest of movie producer Alexander... Read More

We get the world we praise and support. If you honor and reward a behavior, you get more of it. If you don’t support what you need... Read More

I grew up in a quiet place, in a house on top of a hill surrounded by birch trees on a road with no name, three and a half miles outside a... Read More

Laura K. Field could not have picked a better month for the release of Furious Minds: The Making of the MAGA New Right. At the beginning... Read More

Almost exactly 64 years after Barbie’s first Toy Fair, I flew to Berlin. It was March 4, 2023. I was staying in the second bedroom of... Read More

The US is the most successful country in human history, as measured by the current in vogue metric of excellence, which is how much stuff... Read More

Few figures are more fundamental to and more poorly understood in the modern West than the gentleman. For most, the word evokes cartoonish... Read More

Sitting beside me is a can of the notorious Special Brew. Shorn of its old label—and shined into bougie respectability—this... Read More

It’s a great party. But as the music gets louder, the lights dimmer, and the drinks stronger, you already know how it ends: a miserable... Read More

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has the crowd in thrall when he declares, “Chiropractors are my kind of people.” It’s September 2023,... Read More

In introducing the first version of this now annual list, it was noted how those included reflected a definition of stylish that was looser... Read More

For generations, we’ve gazed into the eyes of chimpanzees and seen ourselves reflected back—a comforting mirror that suggested... Read More

In November 1980, The New Yorker put out one of the longest and strangest essays it ever published. “Within the Context... Read More

Balaji Srinivasan, former chief technology officer of Coinbase, the cryptocurrency exchange, turns to address the hundreds of tech workers... Read More

Last week the Trump administration expressed its fear that Europe faces “civilizational erasure.” Its concern was... Read More

This story contains spoilers for Peacock's All Her Fault. Jake Lacy is no television critic, but there’s one thing he’s sick of... Read More

On January 15, 1947, Betty Bersinger pushed her three-year-old daughter, Anne, in a stroller down a stretch of abandoned, weed-strewn lots on... Read More