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No beating around the bush here, since the film itself doesn’t: Na Hong-jin’s Hope is extraordinary. Is it also ridiculous,... Read More

Sean Thor Conroe is a troll. This is either an under-commented-on aspect of his work and literary persona, or else so glaringly obvious that... Read More

Inside the Waldorf Astoria in Washington, DC, a colony of flamingos has gathered. Around 200 people are balancing on one leg with their eyes... Read More

When I broke up with my ex four-plus years ago, I had criteria in mind for the type of person I wanted to date next. Most of it I... Read More

On September 14, 1997, approximately two weeks before Seinfeld would triumphantly return to air for its ninth season, Larry David was... Read More

After a decade of Donald Trump’s chaos and cruelty, we might ask how literary fiction is responding. Readers, for their part, flocked... Read More

At the age of 29, Jacques Testard set up a publishing house because no one in publishing would employ him. Born in France and schooled in... Read More

All factories are alike; each unhappy worker is unhappy in their own way. For the British-born, Ireland-resident author Claire-Louise... Read More

At last, a climate crisis satire so smug and bombastic it makes Adam McKay’s Don’t Look Up seem almost innocuous. Digger is... Read More

One of the most urgent questions facing society today is the potential impact of AI on education and labor markets. So it’s no surprise... Read More

People move forward. When children grow into adults, leave home, and start families of their own, they civilize and re-civilize the world... Read More

Matthew Adelstein is one of a small group of new public philosophers—a handful of young thinkers doing and perhaps performing... Read More

Cody Bellinger came up to bat with a chance to put the game away, but I was too busy trying to counter the chants from the surprisingly loud... Read More

We need a new dog. It’s time. It has been almost two years since the departure from this world of our previous dog, Lucy, who was with... Read More

Twenty twenty-six may be the year of “home.” In July, Americans celebrated the 250th anniversary of our homeland’s... Read More

Anyone who appreciates political ideas and music will open Martha Nussbaum’s The Republic of Love with a twinge of envy. Nussbaum is... Read More

In The Frenchmen, her new chronicle of postwar French philosophy, New York Times Book Review senior editor Emily Eakin has done something... Read More

Like many in the literary world, I read, with great interest, Naomi Kanakia’s recent exegesis on the “little” magazines... Read More

It looked like a Victorian madhouse from where I stood: all smoke-stained redbrick with the windows barred to discourage suicide. My mother... Read More

Over the summer, we kicked off Model Behavior, a series that asks top writers, thinkers, critics, and creators to tell us honestly how they... Read More

From sea to shining sea, the Pacific to the Atlantic to the Adriatic. Over the next few weeks, I’ll write about the Getty and the new... Read More

“I guess there’s nothing that can make a guy give a damn if he doesn’t feel like it.” The pissed-off slouch in... Read More

Dodge City might sound like a throwback to Patrick deWitt’s celebrated western, The Sisters Brothers, but that’s only the first... Read More

U.S.A. is the slice of a continent. U.S.A. is a group of holding companies, some aggregations of trade unions, a set of laws bound in calf,... Read More

Recently I spent an hour stranded in a bus shelter as a large storm passed through my city. I had forgotten my umbrella and was travelling... Read More

Mid-century Americans knew how to throw a party, for better or worse. In some of the most famous titles of the 1950s and 1960s—Couples,... Read More

During a period of melancholy, acute, prolonged, or both, you learn, relearn your own basic human resources, your hidden strengths, your... Read More

Patrick Deneen's Why Liberalism Failed showcased his talent as a writer and rhetorician, but it was loose with political history and far too... Read More

Like I said last week, The Point is the best of these little magazines. I have to say, the magazine world is so funny, because people whisper... Read More

Many Americans may be losing trust in journalism, but attorneys at the Clarkson Law Firm are apparently not among them. Read More

There’s a type of show that I think of as “Albion TV.” It is extremely popular both within Britain and internationally.... Read More

In the never-ending conflict between an aging generation and the one taking over, it has become cliché for the older group to claim... Read More

Errand Weather, Nathan Dragon’s second book, purports to be two linked novellas. The first section, titled Fug, spans ninety-five pages... Read More

For the first time in history, there are more elderly (<65) than young children (>5) across the globe. This is a predictable... Read More

Increasing numbers of Americans are deeply opposed to building more data centers. Over the summer, Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro imposed... Read More