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Milwaukee Brewers manager Pat Murphy is bringing accountability back to baseball. He may bring his team to their first World Series title... Read More

Elizabeth Bishop tinkering with a five-page poem about a moose for twenty-six years. Gay Talese affixing his writing to a wall and... Read More

Of all the predictions Alexis de Tocqueville made while surveying the youthful United States, one of the boldest concerned religion.... Read More

The novels of Cormac McCarthy stand out in American literature like a mountain range, not only for their eminence but their solitariness and... Read More

A few denizens of the New York literary (and literary party) scenes ran the respected small press Archway Editions from dive bars and... Read More

Until recently, whenever I read a novel or a play, I largely forgot its contents within a matter of weeks. The words and events would drain... Read More

Almost a decade after its publication, George Saunders’ Lincoln in the Bardo has established itself as a cultural happening. This fall... Read More

At some point in the past few years, visiting nearly every major city in Europe or the Americas became indistinguishable from visiting every... Read More

Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim’s fascinating documentary You Can See Everything is now the object of obsession for moviegoers... Read More

Back in the day (as he would have put it), Ali G was my favorite Sacha Baron Cohen character. In the ’90s and early 2000s, there was... Read More

It’s been 129 long days since the New York Knicks broke a five-decade dry spell, kicking off one of the greatest summers the greatest... Read More

It was a study in contrast that today’s Hollywood should re-examine—but won’t. Last week at the American Film... Read More

Earlier this year, I surfaced from sleep to a strange noise, a loud, human singing reverberating through our bedroom ceiling, then a low,... Read More

It takes three security checks to get into a room that holds a billion dollars in jewels. Badge, photo ID, badge again. And then, there you... Read More

TOWARD THE END of the first year of my MFA program, my cohort gathered to discuss our final projects. Read More

I was probably in the second or third grade when Lois Lowry came to speak in my elementary school. She was not yet a Newbery-winning author... Read More

Kail Lowry is an influential podcaster, author, and a mother of seven who rose to fame as a star on the MTV franchise Teen Mom, which... Read More

When I began writing about America I was told to read de Tocqueville’s Democracy in America, which I didn’t do because I prefer... Read More

On October 6, the Zimbabwean author Simbarashe Kundizeza won the Caine Prize for African Writing, for the short story “The Blue... Read More

I had never taken care of children, but the prospect didn’t worry me. What daunted me was the task of preparing dinner for my young... Read More

It was fitting that, just hours after the first public screenings of the Elizabeth Holmes documentary began last Thursday, Elon Musk put on a... Read More

On Thursday I wrote about mosaics — not the best-known medium for art — and not any old mosaics but the ones in Ravenna in... Read More

Always glad to see Elon Musk pummeled, of course, as he is in Alex Gibney’s documentary Musk, now playing in theaters. The film sounds... Read More

In You Can See Everything, the bewildering new documentary by Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim, Billy Evans barely blinks and rarely... Read More

Last year I read Matthew Gasda’s novel The Sleepers, and I didn’t like it.1 That book was about a millennial intellectual... Read More

What if I told you that much of what you know about Ernest Hemingway is a façade? One of the greatest pieces of marketing ever... Read More

There have been many books written about the online right and the Trump movement, most by people who are, to put it mildly, critical of them.... Read More

Last fall, FDA safety officers began compiling a list of children possibly killed by COVID vaccines. Digging through thousands of reports of... Read More

My 43-year-old matchmaking client gave me a condition: If we introduced him to women over 32, they needed to have at least 70 eggs frozen. He... Read More

Ten metres above my head, a flag with a colourless orchid for a heart sways in accord with the westerlies, noir shadows vicious across its... Read More

This line comes from Mr. Humberstone, a character in Lucas Smith’s 2025 short-story collection, Spare Us Yet and Other Stories... Read More

A revolution is brewing in the world of video games. Earlier this year, hackers allegedly stole the source code for Rockstar’s Grand... Read More

On the night of May 10, 1968, the most storied night in the last century of French of civil unrest, nearly 40,000 students faced off against... Read More

At first, I felt resistant to the idea of reading an Emily Brontë biography. After all, Brontë did not make herself the most... Read More