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Thirteen seconds after midnight on July 4, 1976, Karen Steele was born in Montclair, New Jersey, and was anointed the first... Read More

If there is one aspect of Millennial culture I hope that our generational successors jettison, it is the concept of... Read More

“Stop me if this is out there,” he says. He scrunches his face and subtly tilts his chin. It’s a familiar... Read More

There are precious few scholars who reach the bestseller lists, much less remain on them eighteen years after their death. Yet some thirty... Read More

I love getting out into the Mountain West, but I hate eating badly once I’m there. This is why my packing lists, scribbled on the back... Read More

The poem takes place on the plain of Scamander. It takes place in a dark wood. In the Garden of Eden. On the hard road to Shu. It takes place... Read More

An elite sport climber died Aug. 3 while attempting a new route in the Sierra Nevada mountains. Jake Whisenant, 30, joins a long list of... Read More

When the Booker Prize longlist was recently announced, it included a book with the memorable title “May We Feed the King.” The... Read More

A month ago, I wrote a post called “Why You’re Not Writing.” I wrote it in part to figure out why I’m not... Read More

The US Open begins next week. Six Americans are seeded in the top thirty-two, and two sit within the top ten. If the draw breaks... Read More

This week, Get Real devotes the entire hour to a question that touches every American: who controls the information we see, hear, and believe? Read More

The ’90s are trending. Commodore is releasing a vintage flip phone, and the kids who begged their parents for iPhones in 2012 are using... Read More

Are literary men disappearing? Some have been saying. As publishing’s cultural status and financial prospects have declined,... Read More

In 2013, I read a book by Douglas Rushkoff titled Present Shock, which was a play on futurist Alvin Toffler’s 1970 book Future Shock.... Read More

On this week’s episode of the RealClearInvestigations Podcast, RCI Editor J. Peder Zane and RCI Senior Reporter James Varney speak with... Read More

Travel comes with lows and highs and right now I’m at a low, and have been for over a week. I’m not saying this for sympathy... Read More

It’s no secret that young men and boys have been struggling. Whether it is decreasing college enrollment, lagging behind girls in high... Read More

I. The initial pleasure of an Éric Rohmer film is the pleasure of a beautiful face. The initial response of any viewer is a dazed... Read More

The Sun Also Rises made me a writer. It also showed me another way to live. I read it one summer when I was home from college. My job was... Read More

Jay McInerney would later say of the Literary Brat Pack, a cohort of twentysomething fiction writers with flashy debuts in the mid-1980s,... Read More

Sveriges Television (SVT), Sweden’s tax-funded public service broadcaster, has recently launched Silent Attraction, which seems to be... Read More

“It feels somehow shifty and . . . dishonest, making a buck writing,” Anthony Bourdain wrote in his celebrated 2000 memoir,... Read More

"In recent decades," Stephanie Coontz writes, "many parts of the world have seen a revival of the more pernicious form of nostalgia …... Read More

You wonder what Irvine Welsh wanted. Having sold more than six million books easily makes him one of the UK’s most successful literary... Read More

EVE BABITZ RETURNED WHEN WE NEEDED HER MOST: in the late 2010s and early 2020s, when the pressures created by a rapidly shrinking media... Read More

The biggest hit of the summer, of the year, is Spider-Man: Brand New Day, starring Tom Holland as Peter Parker in his fourth outing in the... Read More

By the time Chibuike was 24 years old, he had been kicked out of his family home multiple times, developed a drug addiction, attempted... Read More

Look, the kid is fine at soccer. At 11, he’s competitive, and he loves the game. But if his mother, Elizabeth, had it her way, he would... Read More

The tech boom of the past quarter century has been one of the greatest wealth creation events in human history. Our species’ addiction... Read More