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A portrait of the artist in 1986 finds him at Woods Gramercy, an upscale restaurant in what the New York Times is calling... Read More

Only two notable things have ever happened in Oxford, Mississippi. JFK and RFK mobilized approximately 30,000 soldiers and federal agents to... Read More

He’s a Master Trash-Talker KEVIN HART on Jay-Z at the poker table What people don’t know about Hov is: Hov is really funny.... Read More

I. So it all began when I reread George Orwell’s 1940 essay “Inside the Whale” for the first time in years and it sent me... Read More

In his last days in office, President Barack Obama set America on a new course. On December 23, 2016, he signed into law the Countering... Read More

I have never cared that Grey’s Anatomy or Suits is unrealistic. Yes, I believe that writers should do painstaking research, and that... Read More

A couple of years ago, when AI had come onto the market and was clearly reshaping the society, I decided that I would have nothing to do with... Read More

Halfway​ through Willa Cather’s The Song of the Lark (1915), the heroine, a young singer called Thea Kronborg, travels to the... Read More

On or about December 2010 human character changed. I am not saying that one went out, as one might into the street, and noticed that the flow... Read More

I read Atlas Shrugged in 1994. It was also in 1994 that I first read about cable television visionary John Malone. He was in the... Read More

Consider this childhood memory. When I was a little girl, before I started school, my mother taught me to write. First I learned to write the... Read More

In 2019, George Will elaborated his vision of American conservatism in The Conservative Sensibility. American conservatism is a... Read More

At the end of 2022, just before Christmas, the college that I worked for offered me $25,000 to quit.  They offered this to all full-time... Read More

In Addiction by Design, Natasha D. Schüll’s compelling history and analysis of slot machine gamblers in Las Vegas, she... Read More

What buffer, blackguard, or mountebank was behind the ghastly disappearance and presumptive murder of the blessed innocent Edwin Drood? Was... Read More

Charles Bukowski was born in Germany in 1920. His family moved to America and he grew up in LA in the thirties where he claims he had a... Read More

Greetings from South Bend and the campus of the University of Notre Dame, home of the new Raclin Murphy Museum of Art. It’s a... Read More

What is the point of the novel in 2026? Is it still a useful narrative form in the age of scrolling shortform videos while Netflix plays in... Read More

People on the internet like to be mean to venture capitalist Marc Andreessen. At least the poor man doesn’t dwell on it. Last week, on... Read More

‘April is the cruellest month.’1 It is 1922, and the world has been abruptly roused to the modernist wreckage of the Western... Read More

Romantic love is not just the stuff of fairy tales and wishes. It might explain why some societies have developed gender equality... Read More

Ed Fitzgerald remembers the first time he worried about the new neighbor, when he first got a glimpse of what was to come. The man next door,... Read More

Written in 1798, Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s “Rime of the Ancient Mariner” kicked off the Romantic era with the senseless... Read More

NEW ORLEANS, La.—Although they received millions of taxpayer dollars, it can be hard to find the offices of health service providers in... Read More

The rise of online provocateurs and extremist shock jocks—whether it be the likes of Hasan Piker on the far-left, or Nick Fuentes on... Read More

There are countless eras in music history that might deserve to be called revolutionary: Mahler’s Symphony No.5, the hypnotic... Read More

On Sunday, a writer named Becky Tuch posted an excerpt on X from a months-old New York Times “Modern... Read More