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John Coltrane played his final live performances as a sideman on tour with Miles Davis in Europe in spring 1960. Returning home, the... Read More

Where does Louisiana end, and the ocean begin? And where will New Orleans end, when the ocean gradually swallows up the land around us? Read More

The most famous bar in America, as of this week, is Last Ditch—a small, failing lesbian bar in Greenfield, Massachusetts, with $10... Read More

‘Give me the child until he’s seven and I’ll show you the man” is sometimes attributed to Aristotle, though... Read More

Eleven days before two Boeing 767s piloted by Al Qaeda terrorists slammed into the World Trade Center, killing 2,606 people, the publisher... Read More

Where do you go in America today? Anywhere, of course, but the question seems harder to answer. What made this country great, and still does,... Read More

If ever there were a cottage industry among today’s literati, it is writing about the demise of higher education. Every few years you... Read More

Youth sports, once the redoubt of aimless childhood play, have become hopelessly commercialized. A recent article by Caitlin Moscatello in... Read More

I believed in Jonathan Majors.  Read More

Karl Marx and Niccolò Machiavelli share the distinction of being among the few major thinkers in the English language whose names have... Read More

Miley Cyrus is in love again. On the former child star’s tenth studio album, Bass Persuades, Miley (who now goes by just her first... Read More

The difficulty with writing a book as beloved as Pachinko is that following it is almost impossible. With her new novel, American Hagwon... Read More

ON THE DAY the San Diego Padres' new ownership group was introduced, Manny Machado did some quick math. When the team was sold in 2012, he... Read More

At the Small Press Expo held recently in Bethesda, Maryland, there was a moment of quiet intensity that revealed a lot about current issues... Read More

Zach Cregger’s horror-comedy Resident Evil is a real blast of a movie, fast, funny, scary, and inspired. Only an exuberant film lover... Read More

I think it was a year ago, maybe two, when I heard an Audible feature segment on The Paris Review (still available on their website) with... Read More

“Ah, young American novelists,” the critic Nicholas Lezard once lamented in The Guardian, “Why must their novels be so... Read More

The King has had a word with the giants of the AI industry, so one assumes that all is now well and the Apocalypse has been called off for... Read More

In the last week of July, two incidents involving disruptive Chinese fans of a genre of Asian media triggered something close to a crisis in... Read More

Can you vote for or against technological progress? In most elections, it’s not that simple. But this November, Californians will have... Read More

Midway through Plato’s Symposium the comic poet Aristophanes takes the floor. He tells us that, in the beginning, we were whole, shaped... Read More

My quiet, recondite corner of the city of Buenos Aires was known as Ciudad Feliz, literally happy city, when its territories were auctioned... Read More

One of the first effects of our strange, new technological age has been to shine a stark light back on our assumptions about humanity. Read More

Towards the end of Zach Cregger’s latest update of the Resident Evil franchise, Austin Abrams, playing a courier who unwittingly... Read More

   In his 2014 novel History of the Rain, Irish novelist Niall Williams takes on the voice of Ruth Swain as the narrator, a... Read More

Pelagia noctiluca is the most common stinging jellyfish found in the Mediterranean Sea. A primitive creature, it lacks both a brain and a... Read More

You probably forgot about Barack Obama’s 2006 speech on faith and politics.  Read More

Adam Wingard opens his new movie, Onslaught, with a brainrot history of the military industrial complex, a slipshod compilation of combat... Read More

As we rose higher, a sense of exhaustion flooded my head, my chest felt like an emptied cage, its curious occupants having long since... Read More

Dear Paul, I’ve been enriched by your essay. In your first paragraph, I was strongly affected by your identifying of... Read More

The 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey was eerily prescient. On a mission to Jupiter, astronauts Frank and Dave get their news on the equivalent... Read More

In the novel Yesteryear, Caro Clair Burke’s mega-successful tale of a tradwife content creator who travels back in time to the 19th... Read More