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LOUISE GLÜCK’S A Village Life (2009) provides the first epigraph for Etna, Paul Yoon’s new novel with a dog narrator.... Read More

How do you write? I mean, at all: How do you enter or approach that space where literature becomes possible? Is there some kind of protocol... Read More

FOXBOROUGH, Mass. -- Mike Vrabel, the hulking former linebacker who coached his team to the Super Bowl last season, had assumed his news... Read More

If you’ve never seen a bad production of Macbeth, you’ve probably never seen a production of Macbeth. Famously cursed, the play... Read More

In the days following the shootings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti, for reasons which were initially more unconscious than conscious, I reread... Read More

Wendell Berry, the Southern agrarian writer, farmer, and poet, died on Monday at his home in Port Royal, Kentucky, at the age of 92. He was a... Read More

Our culture has an unhealthy obsession with mental illness, and the Lindsay Clancy trial is just the latest reminder. Children and adults... Read More

So begins Homer’s Odyssey.  Film buffs, classicists, political pundits—almost everyone—has been talking about this... Read More

On Sunday, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang announced that artificial general intelligence — a computer that can cogitate like the human mind... Read More

Russell L. Riley writes at the beginning of “Inside the George W. Bush White House,” an oral history of the Bush 43 years, that... Read More

Ryan, a 48-year-old teacher living in North Carolina, quite literally wishes he had never been born. He has a “deep resentment”... Read More

I have lived through 34 summers in Phoenix, and I seem to be getting progressively worse at dealing with them. The heat is horrific, of... Read More

It begins with breathless death: two boys trapped in an ice box. These are the Jump brothers, Ned and Billy-Billy, whose play-it-again name... Read More

Most novels provide a sense of unity by means of illusion. What seems to be one story is actually at least two stories and often more. At the... Read More

As the first birthday of Romanticon comes around, I’ve found my days taken up with the organising of a hundredth birthday party. A... Read More

Ironically, the Greeks and Romans were pretty goth. As a Roman tombstone tells us, “We are, and we were, nothing. See, reader, how... Read More

This week, I find myself unexpectedly very sad. Gloria Steinem’s death on Wednesday marked the passing of our second-wave feminist... Read More

On Friday, the Lindsay Clancy trial ended in a mistrial after the jury failed to reach a unanimous verdict, ending—at least for... Read More

There’s a great movie called Midnight in Paris that I watch at least once a year. Have you seen it? It follows a man, Gil, played by... Read More

We’ve long been ensorcelled by the passage of time. Puckered leaves fluttering from the spidery arms of barren trees. Grains of sand... Read More

The first time I killed a deer, my uncle field-dressed it for me. He showed me how to press the tip of the knife into the animal’s soft... Read More

As much as I’m embarrassed to admit it, I can’t deny my obsession with MTV’s most-watched reality series Jersey Shore.... Read More

On the final page of Wendell Berry’s collection A Timbered Choir, the first of two volumes of what he called “Sabbath... Read More

“Boys talk about sports, girls talk about Taylor Swift,” I once joked. Of course, plenty of women play and watch sports, and the... Read More

I first met Gloria Steinem at the Café des Artistes in October 1997. That bohemian spot in Lower Manhattan was the feminist writer... Read More

Colson Whitehead's latest novel is proof that good things come in threes. The acclaimed writer may not have followed up his two Pulitzer... Read More

For a year and a half, Coyote vs. Acme director Dave Green watched everyone stick up for the little guy. (Let us agree that a $70 million... Read More

In January 2023, Lindsay Clancy strangled her three children in her basement and then tried to kill herself. On August 20 this year, several... Read More

Earlier this year, Curry Barker and Kane Parsons became young Hollywood phenoms in quick succession. An actor and sketch comedian, the... Read More

When the sun set on Salisbury plain June 20, it was the eve of the longest day of the year. A crowd had gathered from all over the world, an... Read More