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Lionel Messi found himself surrounded. Tens of thousands of fans looked down on him at MetLife. Billions were watching around the world. And... Read More

Sir Paul McCartney is the kind of person who long ago ceased to be a human being. His artistic achievement and cultural footprint are so... Read More

Amid the controversy over Christopher Nolan’s odd diversity casting, the director’s biggest change to “The Odyssey”... Read More

Twenty years after her death, there’s still much to say about Muriel Spark. And biographers and critics have queued up to do it:... Read More

ALL LITERARY AGENTS are liars. I am a literary agent. Read More

“How’s about we form a good old-fashioned Warped Tour circle pit?” Cory Castro bellows into the mic, calling the few... Read More

Every afternoon, I drive to my local YMCA and spend an hour jogging in place on an elliptical machine. At that time of day, I am not in the... Read More

Every few months, some magazine or other does some “state of criticism” roundtable where they get, I don’t know, Becca... Read More

A man floats half-dead for days in the middle of the Mediterranean. Eventually he is rescued by a kind stranger and nursed back to health.... Read More

Directed by Jon Erwin and released to commemorate this special Fourth of July, the film Young Washington hits the viewer almost startlingly.... Read More

If Johns Hopkins University wanted to signal its seriousness about creating an alternative to the left-leaning orthodoxy that permeates... Read More

One day at Café Central in Vienna in 1894, Peter Altenberg was reading a story in the newspaper about the disappearance of a... Read More

Christopher Nolan does something extraordinarily nervy in his overwhelming new film, The Odyssey. He has made as faithful a version of... Read More

“Does anyone else associate World Cup summers with this deep sense of relaxation tinged with childhood nostalgia?” Sohrab Ahmari... Read More

Tom Hiddleston is holding court in the center of an ancient city, determined to solve a centuries-old mystery. An epic cataclysm happened... Read More

“The whole field of AI alignment—ensuring that machine intelligence can peacefully coexist with humanity—grew out of the... Read More

Is there any subject that fiction cannot address? From its beginnings as a form, the novel has dealt with love and hate, war and peace,... Read More

PITY THE TRANSLATOR of masterpieces. “We convince by our presence,” Walt Whitman wrote, suggesting that a work of art has to... Read More

The first line of Homer’s Odyssey can be roughly translated as, “Tell me, O Muse, of that many-talented man.” This seems... Read More

Is politics downstream of culture? Not in the publishing industry. This is evident in the recent publication of two books on editing and... Read More

In 1983, four years out of college, I was living in Rochester, New York, covering part of western New York for the Associated Press. I had a... Read More

One of the peculiarities of being young and Catholic in New York City is that everyone and their mother (including my mother) have asked me... Read More

When The Guest took the Hamptons by storm, many considered Emma Cline to have crafted the book of the summer. “People scour the pages... Read More

Christopher Nolan has described the Homeric source material of his new film of The Odyssey as “foundational” for his work. On the... Read More

“That was my Rohmer gateway drug,” says Alexandra Tell of the 1986 film Le Rayon Vert (The Green Ray). “It captures this... Read More

During the opening credits of About Last Night, we hear before we see two men having a conversation about a one-night stand. F-bombs... Read More

In 1876, as corruption scandals shook the Ulysses S. Grant administration, the poet, diplomat, and founding Atlantic editor James Russell... Read More

Granta contributors, friends and staff share what they are reading this summer.   Read More

A few weeks ago, a friend and I visited the New Museum to see the exhibit New Humans: Memories of the Future. Prosthetics performing uncanny... Read More

The following article contains spoilers for Christoper Nolan’s The Odyssey All adaptations are bad. They simply cannot be faithful, no... Read More

Travis Knight, the CEO of Laika, the animation house behind “Coraline” and “ParaNorman,” can’t shake a moment... Read More

What would become this summer’s most improbable and short-lived fling began with a double fist-pump and a hip-shimmy. Christian... Read More

The last major director in Hollywood is Sir Christopher Nolan. We have other famous names—think of Tarantino—but they’re... Read More

There’s a particular rhythm to the World Cup, a progression. It begins as an all out bacchanalia, a frenetic all-you-can-eat football... Read More