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It went on long enough that the crowd curdled and its cheers turned sarcastic. It was the middle of April, just three weeks into a six-month... Read More

Before we saw a single parakeet, we heard them: a disembodied static that grew louder as we approached Hither Green Cemetery in southeast... Read More

The first time I read Rachel Aviv’s journalism, she had chosen a subject she rarely writes about—herself. In “Prologue:... Read More

Netflix’s new documentary “Norm: The Tale of Norm Macdonald” feels like a philosophical guide from the late, great... Read More

Imagine: The year is 1845. You, your wife, and your seven children sell your farm and buy a covered wagon. You load it with everything you... Read More

Conservatives are in their post-fusionist era. That is, the days of big tent-ism on the political right have reached an end. Conservatives,... Read More

Having required decades to write and rewrite, William Gass’s The Tunnel has always been a difficult novel to read. An enormously long,... Read More

Some of these places along here, they used to be somewhere. Two decades into the 20th century, Route 66 tied half the country together.... Read More

Netflix. Great company. Revenue growth for the most recent quarter was 12%. Its net income was up an astonishing 44%, year-on-year, to $3.7... Read More

Fatherland, the new Paweł Pawlikowski film about Thomas Mann’s 1949 trip to Germany, may be the most powerful film about the current... Read More

A man cosplays schizophrenia, gets himself admitted to an insane asylum, and pens an exposé that indelibly alters U.S. diagnostic... Read More

During the nearly four-year siege of Sarajevo, an almost two-mile-long corridor along the city’s main artery, including Meša... Read More

I started reading Matthew Aldrich’s The Natural Order just a few hours after I got a colonoscopy. In the end, the novel was better. But... Read More

For the record, I generally deplore acronyms. They oversimplify important concepts and are often employed to mask someone’s... Read More

From the printing press to the radio, from television to social media, communication technologies affect politics and broader society by... Read More

When Chanita Chayaluk decided to open her restaurant and wine bar Taan, she hoped “to showcase Thai food in Chicago in a different... Read More

January 2022. TikTok had chosen its villain of the week. West Elm Caleb was a six-foot-four mustachioed lothario who had strung along several... Read More

A black-and-orange Christian cross lit up the outfield big screen. One hundred fifty fans gathered to hear a retired Major League Baseball... Read More

Thirty years ago this summer, the sociologist William Julius Wilson published When Work Disappears, in which he attributed high unemployment... Read More

Is Nathan Fielder interested in making something innovative and great, or does he only really care about making money? That's technically the... Read More

“Black c—k loves you!” This was the early morning cry of two young, white TikTokers outside the looksmaxxing influencer... Read More

Something in the literary world isn’t adding up. On the surface, the numbers aren’t looking good. If you’re an American,... Read More

The first thing every music student learns is the scale: an ordered series of notes which, in Western classical music, consists of twelve... Read More

From the confines of our culturally diminished present—in which UFC cage matches are held on the White House South Lawn while the John... Read More

“Every artist’s work changes when he dies,” the painter, critic, documentarian, and writer John Berger wrote of the Swiss... Read More

The month of October 1926 included dates relating to two individuals who contributed mightily to the communal gaiety of the twentieth... Read More

Speaking to The New York Times a few days before Digger (2026) hit theaters, Alejandro G. Iñárritu said that the script of his... Read More

In 2014, when sports betting was still banned in 49 states, National Basketball Association commissioner Adam Silver wrote that “sports... Read More

Classical liberals and conservatives this year have been busy celebrating two concurrent events: the 250th anniversary of the publication of... Read More

When I want to see human equality, I visit a graveyard. When I want to experience excellence, I watch the NFL. When I say the NFL, I do not,... Read More

There’s a certain kind of novel that’s not quite apocalyptic enough to be science fiction, but just far-fetched enough to be... Read More