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Kail Lowry is an influential podcaster, author, and a mother of seven who rose to fame as a star on the MTV franchise Teen Mom, which... Read More

When I began writing about America I was told to read de Tocqueville’s Democracy in America, which I didn’t do because I prefer... Read More

On October 6, the Zimbabwean author Simbarashe Kundizeza won the Caine Prize for African Writing, for the short story “The Blue... Read More

I had never taken care of children, but the prospect didn’t worry me. What daunted me was the task of preparing dinner for my young... Read More

It was fitting that, just hours after the first public screenings of the Elizabeth Holmes documentary began last Thursday, Elon Musk put on a... Read More

On Thursday I wrote about mosaics — not the best-known medium for art — and not any old mosaics but the ones in Ravenna in... Read More

Always glad to see Elon Musk pummeled, of course, as he is in Alex Gibney’s documentary Musk, now playing in theaters. The film sounds... Read More

In You Can See Everything, the bewildering new documentary by Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim, Billy Evans barely blinks and rarely... Read More

Last year I read Matthew Gasda’s novel The Sleepers, and I didn’t like it.1 That book was about a millennial intellectual... Read More

What if I told you that much of what you know about Ernest Hemingway is a façade? One of the greatest pieces of marketing ever... Read More

There have been many books written about the online right and the Trump movement, most by people who are, to put it mildly, critical of them.... Read More

Last fall, FDA safety officers began compiling a list of children possibly killed by COVID vaccines. Digging through thousands of reports of... Read More

My 43-year-old matchmaking client gave me a condition: If we introduced him to women over 32, they needed to have at least 70 eggs frozen. He... Read More

Ten metres above my head, a flag with a colourless orchid for a heart sways in accord with the westerlies, noir shadows vicious across its... Read More

This line comes from Mr. Humberstone, a character in Lucas Smith’s 2025 short-story collection, Spare Us Yet and Other Stories... Read More

A revolution is brewing in the world of video games. Earlier this year, hackers allegedly stole the source code for Rockstar’s Grand... Read More

On the night of May 10, 1968, the most storied night in the last century of French of civil unrest, nearly 40,000 students faced off against... Read More

At first, I felt resistant to the idea of reading an Emily Brontë biography. After all, Brontë did not make herself the most... Read More

It just so happened that the day everything changed, the day AI safety went mainstream, I was sitting in a multi-story fortress of autists... Read More

On October 14, the publisher Faber & Faber announced that it would stop selling books by the Irish novelist Sally Rooney in the United... Read More

Youth is full of women running out of time. Alex (Sharon Horgan) is a divorced, 50-year-old literary agent with a college-age son. At this... Read More

Maybe you were by a pool this summer, or on a beach, or on a train headed to either of the above. As though in a particularly on-the-nose... Read More

Consider the sticky situation of Sophie Baek, the heroine of Bridgerton’s fourth season. Despite being but a lowly housemaid, she and... Read More

The memory doesn’t start with the violence. It starts with the silence—a mundane, routine pause during a changeover at... Read More

Thirty-six years ago, a writer named Ian Frazier published a short satirical piece in the New Yorker imagining what would happen if the... Read More

One evening, thirty odd years ago, I was watching Gloria Steinem drift through a crowded lecture hall when I overheard a scientist ask her... Read More

Most art is bad most of the time. In a capitalist system, the purpose of professional criticism is to distinguish the good from the bad.... Read More

As you may be aware, I have just completed a book about the “tech right,” which will come out next year. I don’t lack... Read More

We are all busily weaving our own webs of language, threading filament upon filament in the hope of ensnaring the objects of our desire. We... Read More

On June 23, choirs of French schoolchildren and a large crowd of dignitaries thronged around the Pantheon in central Paris during a heat... Read More

I’m working on another essay about AI and Marx, but I saw the Nathan Fielder Elizabeth Holmes documentary You Can See Everything and... Read More

The American chemists at Bikini Atoll treated their laboratory like a toilet. Broken beakers and dirty flasks decorated the field office.... Read More

With people grousing over the new Tom Cruise movie, the Daily Wire facing protests over its new film about ICE, and interest finally waning... Read More

As previously mentioned, I have been reading Frank Dikötter’s trilogy on the history of China during its years under the rule of... Read More

Christopher Dawson’s work is a kaleidoscopic treatment of a dizzying amount of Western history. Throughout, he looks at everything from... Read More

Tom McCarthy’s theoretically dense novels, beginning with Remainder in 2005 (for which he received the Believer Book Award), all... Read More

We are all busily weaving our own webs of language, threading filament upon filament in the hope of ensnaring the objects of our desire. We... Read More