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I’ll cop to it—I liked Megalopolis. I’m not sure it was exactly a good movie, but it was unlike anything I had seen... Read More

If you’ve been on X at all recently, you’re aware that it is so, so, over for Hollywood — at least that’s what all... Read More

The culture war has come for Timothée Chalamet. Days before the Academy Awards, a clip went viral of Chalamet — nominated for... Read More

You don’t get much free time in this short life. Ten percent of your total span on earth, perhaps, depending on your job, family... Read More

Are there any actual poems in Distant Star? “The three poems were short; all less than ten lines,” Arturo B., our... Read More

In 2012, the writer and animator Seth MacFarlane, famous at the time as the creator of Family Guy, created something else entirely. Ted was a... Read More

One hundred and nine million albums sold. Fifteen billion YouTube streams. One hundred Billboard charting singles. One hundred and twenty-six... Read More

There’s a great line in the play A Thousand Clowns by Herb Gardner that goes, “If things aren’t funny, then... Read More

What do you listen for in a great movie score? An iconic theme, perhaps, or a meaningful leitmotif that ties the film together. Maybe you... Read More

It’s happening again. The Motion Picture Academy is holding a ceremony to honor its contributions to the global imagination. Competing... Read More

The Semiquincentennial of the Declaration of Independence commands our attention in 2026, and rightly so. Yet in the constellation of... Read More

When an ICE agent shot and killed Minneapolis resident Renee Good after she allegedly obstructed immigration authorities with her vehicle,... Read More

On Sunday the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Such As Hairdressing will present the 98th Oscars telecast, which means millions of... Read More

Will Self has been warning of the death of the novel for years, so it might be heartening for him to consider that the release of his new... Read More

Nobody reads anymore. Or, to put it more accurately, nobody reads like they used to. Well, except for you, of course. This should... Read More

This Christmas Eve, as I’ve done every year since I was a child, I joined my father’s side of the family at my aunt’s... Read More

After he crossed the 70 point threshold, I was rooting for Heat center Bam Adebayo to break Kobe Bryant’s 3-point line era record of 81... Read More

Modern conservatives recognize their duty to reverse the devastation wrought by nearly a century of progressive cultural hegemony. And yet,... Read More

Greetings from the Swamp! I always enjoy visiting. Excise the ruthless bastards, the useless bastards, the liars, reptiles, and Grooms... Read More

It’s hardly going out on a limb to predict that Paul Thomas Anderson’s “One Battle After Another” and Ryan... Read More

The furor over the USA men’s hockey team visiting the Trump White House has faded, but the gap between sports media and the average fan... Read More

Let it be clear from the outset: I don’t think Matt Walsh is smart. Not for a public intellectual, and even among podcaster guys and... Read More

In 1835, when Samuel Clemens was born, the United States was a fledgling 59 years old, a drooling infant in the actuarial terms of political... Read More

Luis Buñuel’s adaptation of Wuthering Heights, Abismos de pasión (1954) opens with a declaration of... Read More

Monday marked the 32nd anniversary of the passing of Charles Bukowski from leukemia at age 73. Considering the life he lived, it is... Read More

Consider two images, or visions, of the study of the liberal arts. One is of a bright young student looking intently at a beautifully... Read More

It started, as so many things do, with a 90-second video on X. A young, bespectacled woman with a charming German accent speaks, to... Read More

From the day it was published, no one has quite known what to do with Emily Brontë’s novel Wuthering Heights, which... Read More

On an evening last November, Kylie ­Jenner was out late at her mother Kris Jenner’s 70th birthday party, held at the Warner Estate... Read More

Leroy was the head custodian, 63 years old, tall and fat, with a short fuzzy white beard like Santa Claus trying out something new. He took... Read More