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Ironically, the Greeks and Romans were pretty goth. As a Roman tombstone tells us, “We are, and we were, nothing. See, reader, how... Read More

This week, I find myself unexpectedly very sad. Gloria Steinem’s death on Wednesday marked the passing of our second-wave feminist... Read More

On Friday, the Lindsay Clancy trial ended in a mistrial after the jury failed to reach a unanimous verdict, ending—at least for... Read More

There’s a great movie called Midnight in Paris that I watch at least once a year. Have you seen it? It follows a man, Gil, played by... Read More

We’ve long been ensorcelled by the passage of time. Puckered leaves fluttering from the spidery arms of barren trees. Grains of sand... Read More

The first time I killed a deer, my uncle field-dressed it for me. He showed me how to press the tip of the knife into the animal’s soft... Read More

As much as I’m embarrassed to admit it, I can’t deny my obsession with MTV’s most-watched reality series Jersey Shore.... Read More

On the final page of Wendell Berry’s collection A Timbered Choir, the first of two volumes of what he called “Sabbath... Read More

“Boys talk about sports, girls talk about Taylor Swift,” I once joked. Of course, plenty of women play and watch sports, and the... Read More

I first met Gloria Steinem at the Café des Artistes in October 1997. That bohemian spot in Lower Manhattan was the feminist writer... Read More

Colson Whitehead's latest novel is proof that good things come in threes. The acclaimed writer may not have followed up his two Pulitzer... Read More

For a year and a half, Coyote vs. Acme director Dave Green watched everyone stick up for the little guy. (Let us agree that a $70 million... Read More

In January 2023, Lindsay Clancy strangled her three children in her basement and then tried to kill herself. On August 20 this year, several... Read More

Earlier this year, Curry Barker and Kane Parsons became young Hollywood phenoms in quick succession. An actor and sketch comedian, the... Read More

When the sun set on Salisbury plain June 20, it was the eve of the longest day of the year. A crowd had gathered from all over the world, an... Read More

“As if under a spell, or hypnosis, she couldn’t escape,” Vicky (Shu Qi) says at the beginning of Hou Hsiao-hsien’s... Read More

Should you still go to college? At this point you really have to start to wonder. The prices get higher and higher. Paying a fortune for... Read More

I’ve listened to a fair number of podcasts over the past few years that touch on the rise and fall of the blogosphere—in the... Read More

MEG HOWREY’S NEW NOVEL Body Language drops readers in medias res into the lives of a trio of adult sisters from the Midwest returning... Read More

Imagine you discover a magical ring that bestows invisibility on its wearer. What do you do next? Many an introductory ethics course has... Read More

In January 1919, more than 2 million gallons of molasses exploded from inside a pressurized holding tank in Boston. A tsunami of syrup, which... Read More

What will people do all day? I mean, of course, if the AIs surpass us at all economically necessary forms of labor. There’s an emerging... Read More

I kept hearing that sex in movies was dead, but I’ve spent the summer watching a surprising amount of sex in the theater. It... Read More

The letter, dated February 12, on South Florida State College letterhead and hand delivered by the Director of Human Resources, contained... Read More

The Meadow Event Park in Doswell, Virginia, lies on a few hundred acres of flat land abutted by farms and an amusement park called Kings... Read More

Youth may be wasted on the young, but what if the young are already wasted? The writer Nancy Lemann coined the term “wastrel-youth... Read More

Eleven years ago, on a cold midnight in Los Angeles, I lay on a chaise lounge at the pool of the (now abandoned) Standard Hotel, made famous... Read More

In 1996, a task force of independent healthcare experts recommended that doctors stop giving urine tests to people who did not show symptoms... Read More

Is it possible for a monolithic streaming service to cook up a great idea for a series, attach a multitalented A-lister, a proven... Read More

Sir David Attenborough is beloved. The esteemed natural historian recently topped a list of the U.K.’s favorite “national... Read More