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Obsession, the box-office sensation directed by 26-year-old Curry Barker, is a sign that the economics of Hollywood are changing, with... Read More

In 2015, I toured the Rust Belt, exploring the ruins of Pittsburgh, Detroit, Youngstown, and Gary. What I saw wasn’t blight, which is... Read More

President Trump jokingly posts a doctored photo of himself leading an alien in chains out of Area 51, while, on a more serious register, his... Read More

Gender relations are tense to the point of hostility these days. Straight men and women are politically and culturally divided. We’re... Read More

Paris in the 1920s — you shoulda been there! At least, that’s the sentiment advanced by the stacks upon stacks of memoirs... Read More

1965 You are born. Your father is not in the delivery room. Your mother leaves the hospital weighing what she weighed before she became... Read More

There is perhaps no greater pleasure in summer than reading a book by a body of water on a perfect 72 degree day with a slight breeze. While... Read More

Imagine if sports journalism were like an actual sporting competition—and the best team wins. In that kind of contest, could any... Read More

“Backrooms” is one of the most unique cinematic events of the year. The film, which opens in theaters Friday via A24, was... Read More

hen HBO’s Euphoria premiered in 2019, critics were equal parts entranced and horrified. Some praised creator Sam Levinson for his fresh... Read More

During my years of coming up in publishing as an editor and writer, I made quite a few dollars writing term papers. I am sure few readers... Read More

You've maybe seen Johnny Yong Bosch before, but chances are greater you've heard his voice. After starting his career with TV's Mighty... Read More

"Too often academic treatises these days are insufferably 'woke' or even unreadable, thanks to their postmodern jargon," explains the author... Read More

Writing in 1833, Justice Joseph Story, one of the greatest jurists of the early republic, warned against a dangerously exaggerated conception... Read More

One Christmas, the writer and critic Emily LaBarge was vacationing on a coral island in the Atlantic when six masked men with guns and... Read More

“Never, ever be afraid to make some noise and get in good trouble, necessary trouble.” — John Lewis Oil... Read More

Two short story collections by trans men were released in 2025, CRAWL by Max Delsohn and Realistic Fiction by Anton Solomonik. (A disclosure:... Read More

For a few short weeks in March, the internet was ablaze with rumors. Comment sections were littered with fruit emojis, speculation, and fiery... Read More

Henry Farrell and Cosma Rohilla Shalizi begin their new paper, “AI as Social Technology,” by noting that “debates about... Read More

HARTFORD, Connecticut—In April 2021, a group of protesters gathered in the shadow of the gold dome of the Connecticut Capitol, holding... Read More

Conservatism as a political movement must offer more than platitudes about liberty and the dignity of hard work; it must be a prescriptive... Read More

Sydney Sweeney has upset a lot of people in her short career. Since rising to fame playing “crazy Cassie” in the edgy Gen Z... Read More

The problem with the New York Times’s “30 Greatest Living American Songwriters” list isn’t a matter of taste. The... Read More

When Jason was 17 and “trying to get swole,” he said he and a friend started noticing they were getting served Instagram videos... Read More

Pine Island, despite its name, is not an island. It’s your average Midwestern farm town, population 3,800. Highway 52 cuts through it... Read More

As a sensitivity reader, your job is to peruse novels in progress to ensure that they do not include any harmful depictions of people whose... Read More

The days are getting longer. The weather is—well, unpredictable, but trending warm. The children are becoming restless. Summer is... Read More

Facts are funny things. It was a fact, for instance, that in the spring of 2024 I won $132,000 playing trivia. That May, I’d flown from... Read More

Bill Tracy is clearly not one to brag, but after a while, it seems he just can’t help himself. “I did come up with something... Read More

Every season when I begin this roundup column of new books I’m looking forward to, I find a way to say this is the perfect weather for... Read More

While watching this just-released, kid-targeted film on May Day — a day which socialists since 1886 have celebrated as... Read More

Imax has been in an enviable position since the great box office reset. Read More

At the White House Correspondents’ Dinner in 2006, Stephen Colbert joked that the then-president wouldn’t pay attention to his... Read More

As partnerships go, Robert De Niro has been pretty lucky. For starters, there’s his legendary 50-year run with Martin Scorsese, a... Read More

Let’s travel through time. Put on your bell bottoms, stare dreamily at that lava lamp, turn up the volume on Paul Simon’s... Read More

Without question, the greatest single event in the history of France — at least that I, personally, was involved in — happened on... Read More