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On TikTok, there are dozens and dozens of videos of men and women, many of them young, staring into the camera to talk earnestly about an... Read More

Three pieces of news came out in the last week that, taken together, demonstrate the immediate need for U.S. lawmakers, both state and... Read More

There’s a certain wistfulness that permeates the disposition of millennials and Generation X regarding the overly digitized world of... Read More

It’s hard to write a case for reading. The challenge for writers who try it isn’t that reading is more abstruse than other... Read More

High-school students in New York have for nearly 150 years taken exit exams to graduate. While the Empire State is phasing out these Regents... Read More

During last month’s remembrances for the 25th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, many Americans reflected on the lingering... Read More

Tucked into the press kit for Amazon’s new “Carrie” series is a three-page memo from showrunner Mike Flanagan titled... Read More

If you are a writer it is hard to escape it. If you are a writer it is nearly impossible not to use it. Read More

Three months ago I published a long essay on Bob Dylan’s late career, as well as a brief follow-up. Usually, when I spend a few months... Read More

Why do so many Americans assume that kids don’t like to eat most foods? The offspring of the species Homo sapiens are not naturally... Read More

Last year I met with an elected official frequently described in the press as friendly to the business community. The politician suggested... Read More

In the early days of the COVID pandemic, my wife and I—not particularly worried about supposed “outdoor... Read More

For…a very long time, I have been writing an essay about what Rachel Cusk did to realism. This required a lot of reading... Read More

Anne Carson has won the Nobel Prize for Literature. As a college freshman I loved If Not, Winter, her translation of Sappho with fragments... Read More

THE PASSEL OF LARGELY MADE-FOR-TELEVISION historical films that Roberto Rossellini oversaw in his later life can, like all films, be... Read More

I HAVE FOUR ISSUES of Unmuzzled OX—numbers 10, 13, 14, and 15. They were published between 1975 and 1978, at the rate of about one per... Read More

THE PUBLISHING INDUSTRY is in the business of manufacturing stories. Not just the ones that live between the covers of the books it sells but... Read More

For the last decade-plus, the answer to seemingly every question about American politics was “polarization.” AI appears poised to... Read More

One of the wildest stories out of Silicon Valley is, alas, a rumor. Allegedly, some of the valley’s denizens are worshipping artificial... Read More

“Hamlet Returns.” “Gatsby II: Carraway’s Revenge.” “Casablanca: The Vichy Years.” It’s funny... Read More

In a world in which grade inflation is rampant on college and university campuses, it is more than a little amusing to see that the... Read More

How do you write a modern monster? Do you create a whimpering beast, as Guillermo del Toro did in his film adaptation of Mary Shelley’s... Read More

Eugene Wu recently started his fourth year as a patient of Cliffside Rehabilitation in Queens, New York. He has little hope of ever leaving.... Read More

Twentieth-century American literature has a tradition of writers exiling themselves to Paris, from Lost Generation icons like Ernest... Read More

One of the great pleasures of Mission: Impossible (1996) is watching Tom Cruise rip off the mask of an older, uglier man to reveal the... Read More

Mark Z. Danielewski published his new novel Tom’s Crossing in October of last year, so there is a way in which this text comes late,... Read More

The human soul: an old-fashioned term, sworling with the patina and shine of an antique. To take such a thing seriously in this age of... Read More

“If I pick up my phone and send out a Tweet,” Senator Ted Cruz remarked at a Hagee Ministries event last year, “within... Read More

The oceans’ vastness can feel ominous, and though scientists have studied what lurks beneath, so much remains unknown. In... Read More

Andrew Garfield is now in his early 40s, but when he lollops around with his rubber limbs flapping every which way and a happy-go-lucky smile... Read More

When Chateau Royale opened in New York City last year, it embodied the city’s rising “swankstaurant” moment, in which the... Read More