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With the polar vortex in ye olde Vermont and two heavy snowfalls already, I’m writing about warm-us-up topics. We’ll have... Read More

On a crisp Friday morning in early October, before the first frost, mom and I set out for the Dollywood theme park in East Tennessee.... Read More

On June 19, 1964, one year from the day President John F. Kennedy introduced it, the Civil Rights Act won final approval in the United States... Read More

In the winter of 2024, the photographer and filmmaker RaMell Ross released Nickel Boys, a masterful adaptation of a novel by Colson... Read More

I thought I understood how art affects us—being an artist myself—until I discovered John Ford. He was the film director who... Read More

On a cold afternoon in the heart of Greenwich Village, Margaret C. Anderson bumped into the man who wanted to put her in prison. Read More

Every holiday season brings with it the same warning: Unless everyone is on the same political side, leave your politics at the... Read More

THE JANE AUSTEN SOCIETY of North America first met in 1979 at the Gramercy Park Hotel, just steps from my CUNY office. No plaque marks this... Read More

When I graduated college in 2023, I was told by English professors that I should pursue writing only if I couldn’t see myself doing... Read More

It’s a Wednesday night on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, and roughly 75 people, sitting in groups of about four or five each, are... Read More

Even as many scholars and pundits deny the differences between the sexes and vastly expand the concept of gender, society is increasingly... Read More

Yes, they waged war on us. That’s the simplest way to summarize what the government, technocratic elite, security state, and media did... Read More

2025 marks the fiftieth anniversary of Patti Smith’s debut album Horses, with Robert Mapplethorpe’s black and white cover... Read More

Some of the books we chose this year touched familiarly big themes: the place of the United States in the Americas; the weakness of democracy... Read More

We get the world we praise and support. If you honor and reward a behavior, you get more of it. If you don’t support what you need... Read More

It’s April 1984. Two men are sleeping in a car park in Basel. Each morning they wake, leave their borrowed Volkswagen Westfalia, and... Read More

Never has there been more concern about the state of boys and young men. In early December, California launched a “mental health media... Read More

It gives me little pleasure to report that Train Dreams is an unfortunately empty film. A pretty film, in some ways. But an empty... Read More

The sovereignty of the individual and his own thoughts is what made American poetry in the 19th century distinctly American. Walt... Read More

This year is the 250th anniversary of the birth of Jane Austen. In 1975, I visited England to celebrate 200 years. Austen was famous then,... Read More

The question “Will I ever be happy?” appears in red Crayola scrawl across a two-page spread, in between photoshoots for... Read More

It’s 9:30 p.m. in a Kansas City, Missouri, hotel lobby, and around 300 women and a handful of men are getting ready to take a shot out... Read More

Throughout English-speaking history, up until about 50 years ago, there had always been men famous in their day for writing beautiful poetry,... Read More

John D. Negroponte, a career diplomat and national security official, is something of a Forrest Gump figure in the sordid annals of postwar... Read More

“Jane Austen had little to say about America,” scholar Lauren Gilbert wrote in a 2012 article, adding, “and that... Read More

Nouvelle Vague—Richard Linklater’s new movie about the making of Jean-Luc Godard’s landmark debut feature À... Read More