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The 20th century variously imagined the end of history: rapture, communism, the triumph of neoliberalism. For the people of the Lamb of God,... Read More

“Prediction markets are gambling,” Utah Governor Spencer Cox recently posted on X. He paired the claim with a slickly... Read More

Each weekday morning, just before the city wakes, a handful of fresh-faced students make their way down Meeting Street toward the last... Read More

In 1993, Keith Waldrop published his first and only novel, Light While There Is Light. The book, which New York Review Books will... Read More

If the 1990s were an era of post-historical melancholy and the 2000s an era of retromania in which the ghosts of styles from former decades... Read More

Jamaica Kincaid really hates England, and who could blame her? In her essay “On Seeing England for the First Time,” which was... Read More

An essay on influencers could start with Marx, or theories of performance, or how doctrines of personal branding first promulgated in the... Read More

In 1833, when the outpost called Chicago was incorporated, only 350 pioneers called the mosquito-plagued bog home. Soon, canals,... Read More

Our go-to tale of resistance to technology is the story of the Luddites: In England in the early nineteenth century, skilled weavers and... Read More

Cannes Film Festival will favor the auteurs this year, with Asghar Farhadi, Pedro Almodóvar, Paweł Pawlikowski, Ira Sachs, Hirokazu... Read More

There is a particular pleasure in watching a scholar dismantle the monument he has spent a career admiring. Tyler Cowen named his blog after... Read More

Underneath the glaciers polar bears patrol along Alaska’s North Slope, the decayed bodies of their ancestors who trod there eons ago... Read More

I am probably more likely to entertain strangers when on the road than I am at work or at home. While traveling on a plane, a train, or a... Read More

“Kanye West Banned from Entering the UK for Nazism” is another newspaper headline that, in 2010, would have sounded like an... Read More

Spring comes in its usual manner: gloriously and without permission. The flowers open along the fairway edges just beyond my window,... Read More

Gwendoline Riley’s novels are not exactly easy to read and they were not, it would seem, easy to write. “I have to get to the... Read More

On the first page of Transcription, American poet Ben Lerner’s latest novel, a version of his long-fidgeting semi-autobiographical... Read More

AT THE START of Ben Lerner’s Transcription (2026), we meet a man reading a novel on a train. He’s struggling to read... Read More

The LeBron James Bob Does Sports Memphis controversy continues to churn. Perhaps it would more accurately be called the LeBron... Read More

On October 7, 1955, five poets stood on a tiny stage at the back of a small art gallery in an unfashionable part of San Francisco and read... Read More

In the fall of 1971, Wallace Stegner, who was running his eponymous fellowship at Stanford, offered the writers in his program some financial... Read More

I (bravely!) consider myself a pioneer in tradwife studies. When I first started feeling inexplicably drawn to Ballerina Farm content, for... Read More

In March of last year, about six weeks after Donald Trump returned to the White House, I traveled to Washington for a meeting of American... Read More

“I had come to Poland to seek out the story of Count Rzewuski and other Polish adventurers who had traveled from the Ukrainian... Read More

1. In the preface to Male Fantasies, a 1977 psychoanalytic study of “the fascistic type” in Nazi Germany, author Klaus... Read More

In this episode of The Miller Report: Real Clear Journalism, Maggie Miller and Paul Thacker break down the latest developments after... Read More

Anyone even passingly familiar with the history of poetry can tell you something about Petrarch’s Canzoniere, beginning, no doubt,... Read More

The anti-war protests are real. So is the foreign money behind them. Read More

You work from home. You no longer attend church. You shop at Costco and barely know your neighbors, except when they notify you of misplaced... Read More

I don’t feel like I have a self. Most people I encounter speak about their experience as if they have an internal centre of awareness... Read More

I’ve never been to space, but as a young child my ego was obliterated by the short film Powers of Ten. I was at summer camp, on a... Read More