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When I was a freshman in college, I frequently found myself in the worst kind of conversation possible, or so it seemed to me at the... Read More

Here is a pocket history of contemporary mass control through dramaIt started with scripted movies and TV shows. These were filmed theatrical... Read More

“If you are going to shit yourself,” goes the first sentence of the filthy and brilliant Calls May Be Recorded,... Read More

Imagine, if you will, a civilization lost to time organized entirely by its desire for intimacy with God Most High: intimacy both spiritual... Read More

In the opening pages of Empire of AI, Karen Hao writes that “this is not a corporate book.” For readers hungry for an... Read More

The first thing a young Adolfo Bioy Casares (1914–1999) learned in his conversations with Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986) was to... Read More

To what extent will artificial intelligence revolutionize (derogatory) the lives of the professionally and semiprofessionally literary?... Read More

President Trump’s first remarks after the assassination of Charlie Kirk were not exactly peaceable, but they were considerably less... Read More

Before the suspected assassin of Charlie Kirk had been arrested, the hunt for his apparent motive was underway. Now, evidence revealed in the... Read More

Haven’t you heard? Everyone is lifting now. Men have traded their gaming setups for home gyms; they’re working on their... Read More

In his 1917 essay Mourning and Melancholia, Sigmund Freud identified two kinds of loss. First, there’s mourning, the “reaction to... Read More

Anyone politically involved over the past decade has likely heard of Charlie Kirk, and those involved in political commentary are weighing in... Read More

Something interesting happened while I was watching TV last week. I laughed out loud. It wasn’t one of those half laughs either, where... Read More

How bad is Bad Lieutenant? One might reckon its offenses: rape, desecration, the titular hero jacking off in front of teenage... Read More

The summer of 2020 is hard to forget (no matter how much one may want to). Intense anxiety hung in the air and clung to every surface.... Read More

Given that AI is here to stay, it behooves those of us attempting to adapt universities to the realities of the mid-21st century to pay... Read More

If Tyriq Withers is attempting to blend in, he’s not doing a great job of it. The 20-something actor has just stepped into the Lower... Read More

The laws of economics can be seen at work nearly everywhere if one only endeavors to take note of them. That which Frédéric... Read More

Many people today argue that we need to reshore manufacturing to boost the economic fortunes of the working class. Retaining the ability to... Read More

In the world of generative artificial intelligence, things are moving fast, and they could start moving a lot faster. Assuming that current... Read More

Jane Austen was born in Hampshire on December 16, 1775, the seventh child of a poor country rector. Despite being red-cheeked and a good... Read More

On Wednesday, September 10, 2025, Charlie Kirk was murdered while hosting one of his trademark public debates at Utah Valley University. The... Read More

Did you feel a pang? Not that I ever found him interesting. But there he was, on the obit screen, dead at 89, at some moment... Read More

After reading all these Westerns, I figured that I ought to read Lonesome Dove, because it’s the most famous Western. This book... Read More

Last week, I had coffee with someone who works at a big consulting firm. She spent twenty minutes explaining her role to me. Not because it... Read More

A woman gnaws at her nails: one hand in her mouth, the other clutching the shaft of a mop, which serves as one bar of a prison cell composed... Read More

James Schuyler, along with John Ashbery, Barbara Guest, Kenneth Koch, and Frank O’Hara, made up the first generation of the “New... Read More

It may still be in the 70s in New York, but autumn, they assure me, approaches. This means it’s time for Literary Hub’s annual... Read More

In our fraught modern world, poets are rarely celebrities. But celebrities sometimes get their poems published. Certain people (disgruntled... Read More

It’s been nearly a week since the assassination of Charlie Kirk, and I’m still processing. Here are a few things I’ve read... Read More

Charlie Kirk was a loving and dedicated husband and father; a pious, learned, and evangelizing Christian; and a hero, inspiration, and mentor... Read More

This season, we’ve got all your Language Arts favorites: women on the verge, gays behaving badly, girls walking around New York City,... Read More

I. Scholastic Self-Esteem In the early 1980s, motivational guru Jack Canfield and progressive California assemblyman John Vasconcellos forged... Read More