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In the suburbs of Chicago where they both grew up, it was just pizza, according to Brittany and Brennan Grosvenor, the couple behind Proof in... Read More

Much of what we find meaningful in relationships we might call friction overcome. Great art reflects this. In the 1962 François... Read More

Earlier this year, billionaire investor Stanley Druckenmiller wrote an op-ed for The Wall Street Journal attacking Treasury Secretary Scott... Read More

Around two a.m. on Saturday, December 8, 1962, the presses stopped. Not with a dramatic yell and a frantic pull of the kill switch to run... Read More

There’s a question that’s been bugging me for months, breaking through my generally optimistic disposition like the rays of a... Read More

More than any other person I have never met, Wendell Berry shaped how I understand myself. The writings of this farmer-prophet of rural... Read More

For the last four Mondays, in a vault-like neoclassical building that houses the Masonic Grand Lodge of Tennessee, behind a perimeter of... Read More

Prior to this month I was beginning to worry there was something wrong with me. In a year of new waves, record-breaking hits, and extreme... Read More

Paweł Pawlikowski’s Fatherland is a postwar period piece mapping a Germany whose broken halves reflect distorted mirror images:... Read More

Very little is certain in our tumultuous times, but one thing I can always rely on is being let down by a popular or acclaimed piece of... Read More

Carlos Mora ran a textile factory with 150 employees in a Venezuelan border town. Today he works as a handyman on the outskirts of Miami,... Read More

What is art to the man who has it all? The world’s richest have taken a particular interest in antiquity, especially epics of an... Read More

The old saw that money is the mother’s milk of politics is a bipartisan truism universally recognized on both sides of the aisle.... Read More

This week’s front-page headlines have been filled with war, betrayal, corruption and lies. I couldn’t be in a happier mood. Not... Read More

Charli D‘Amelio — the reigning queen of TikTok — loves to dance. Whenever a new song comes on at this photography studio in... Read More

Mexican director Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s newly released film, Digger, shows how satire inevitably fails when it tries to... Read More

One of the most revealing exchanges in You Can See Everything centers on a single word. Nathan Fielder, the film’s co-director,... Read More

It feels important to mention from the jump that I’m an Elizabeth Holmes neophyte. When I went to see You Can See Everything, I had no... Read More

Milwaukee Brewers manager Pat Murphy is bringing accountability back to baseball. He may bring his team to their first World Series title... Read More

Elizabeth Bishop tinkering with a five-page poem about a moose for twenty-six years. Gay Talese affixing his writing to a wall and... Read More

Of all the predictions Alexis de Tocqueville made while surveying the youthful United States, one of the boldest concerned religion.... Read More

The novels of Cormac McCarthy stand out in American literature like a mountain range, not only for their eminence but their solitariness and... Read More

A few denizens of the New York literary (and literary party) scenes ran the respected small press Archway Editions from dive bars and... Read More

Until recently, whenever I read a novel or a play, I largely forgot its contents within a matter of weeks. The words and events would drain... Read More

Almost a decade after its publication, George Saunders’ Lincoln in the Bardo has established itself as a cultural happening. This fall... Read More

At some point in the past few years, visiting nearly every major city in Europe or the Americas became indistinguishable from visiting every... Read More

Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim’s fascinating documentary You Can See Everything is now the object of obsession for moviegoers... Read More

Back in the day (as he would have put it), Ali G was my favorite Sacha Baron Cohen character. In the ’90s and early 2000s, there was... Read More

It’s been 129 long days since the New York Knicks broke a five-decade dry spell, kicking off one of the greatest summers the greatest... Read More

It was a study in contrast that today’s Hollywood should re-examine—but won’t. Last week at the American Film... Read More

Earlier this year, I surfaced from sleep to a strange noise, a loud, human singing reverberating through our bedroom ceiling, then a low,... Read More

It takes three security checks to get into a room that holds a billion dollars in jewels. Badge, photo ID, badge again. And then, there you... Read More

TOWARD THE END of the first year of my MFA program, my cohort gathered to discuss our final projects. Read More

I was probably in the second or third grade when Lois Lowry came to speak in my elementary school. She was not yet a Newbery-winning author... Read More