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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

Kyle MacLachlan has played many roles in his 40 years as an actor in Hollywood, but he will forever be most closely associated with David... Read More

When Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another was released last year, some critics and online pundits took issue with how the... Read More

In the spring of 2025, I started seeing fan-made videos of the same young man everywhere on TikTok. Some were photo slideshows; others were... Read More

Tom Cruise does not perform all that many stunts in Digger. There’s little here that feels like a “Tom Cruise production.”... Read More

Stevie Wonder spent the late 1960s and early ‘70s riding a high of unparalleled imagination, pumping out a series of genre-defining and... Read More

“It’s a party for a dating app, anything could happen,” one woman says to her friend, passing her a free drink with a... Read More

PLY (2026) IS ONLY the third novel by Hernan Diaz, but it arrives after the author’s first two novels have established any new work... Read More

It was late May, the French Open was on and DraftKings was pushing me into the action. A promotion pinged on my phone. “BET &... Read More

Every major technological innovation enters culture without our consent. Public intellectuals and historians may quibble over the disruptive... Read More

Welcome the season of raked leaves, pumpkin spice, college football, and literary awards, as publishers roll out their leading contenders, a... Read More

The acclaimed American author William Faulkner declared in 1950 that the writer’s duty was to write about the soul. “I believe... Read More

The debate about DEI has shifted. It is no longer principally about the problem of demonizing straight white people. It is now about how much... Read More