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For most academics, professional success extends to citations and conference invites. Eric Hobsbawm was different. His towering Ages series... Read More

My first encounter with a literary agent was in 1970, the year I worked in publishing for Quadrangle-New York Times Books. The agent was a... Read More

For some of us avid readers, the joy of reading novels is nearly matched by the pleasure of recommending them to our most simpatico friends.... Read More

With the rise of AI, most people feel compelled to ask: How should I be using it? But this question assumes too much. We should instead be... Read More

There's something primordially satisfying about watching a big-screen dinosaur get the what-for from the business end of a just-loaded... Read More

In early September 2019, the former Prime Minister of Belgium tweeted: “This week, the most important event was … the discovery... Read More

Naomi Kanakia was exposed to the Great Books as a teenager. She went to Catholic schools and even learned Latin. She recalls being... Read More

I don’t know exactly the first time I heard a baseball game on the radio. It was probably some time in elementary school. My family did... Read More

New Yorker staff writer Rachel Aviv has built a reputation writing probing profiles of overworked nurses, wronged women, and toxic... Read More

I translated this book, I love it a great deal, and it has a bit of a story behind it. It got a lot of maybes and almosts over the course of... Read More

In 1992, David Foster Wallace published “How Tracy Austin Broke My Heart” in the Philadelphia Inquirer, marking an early foray... Read More

Chris Bohjalian’s The Amateur tells a story from the perspective of an adult looking back at a decades-old pivotal event she sometimes... Read More

Here’s an interesting question: how many white American men born after 1984 have had a literary piece published in The New Yorker? The... Read More

“Have you ever had a Red Bull?” Sam Rockwell asks, apropos of nothing. “I don’t know if I’ve had a Red... Read More

Dr. Abdul El-Sayed’s victory in the Democrats’ U.S. Senate primary in Michigan last Tuesday was the latest sign of an emerging... Read More

On Monday, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg published a 6,500-word marketing pitch tarted up as a manifesto. “We propose a philosophy based on... Read More

Dory Funk Jr.—pro wrestling champion, trainer, and international icon—died earlier this month at 85. Although less famous here,... Read More

In April of this year, 22-year-old Erin St. Gull printed out a hundred copies of a one-page document and hung them up around Toronto. She... Read More

COOPER MANNING HAS unique insight into the mind and psyche of quarterbacks. He's the son of a legend, Archie. He's the brother of two... Read More

When Lena Dunham first met her future husband, she told him two things: “I was sick, and people did not like me. If he could be... Read More

Is it possible to be a country writer, the same way one can be a country singer? No; we do not use this terminology. We say “agrarian... Read More

Oops. Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez — the Democratic Party’s biggest star and heir apparent — went viral this week... Read More

You can hardly imagine the British without their novels. How would the British be understood without the observations and provocations of... Read More

Aryna Sabalenka did not get completely drunk. In July, Sabalenka, the world’s top-ranked women’s tennis player, lost to Naomi... Read More

America’s national anthem – “The Star-Spangled Banner” – is beautiful. But what if Americans could choose a... Read More

When I was 22, I met, and later fell in love with, a woman who had impeccable taste. She dressed well; that was the first thing I noticed.... Read More

This year marks the first time Keri Russell and Matthew Rhys will attend the Emmys together as nominees for different projects: Between... Read More

“100% of this text is AI” is the new Scarlet Letter of dunking on people and posts. I don’t love it; it feels bad to have... Read More

Today’s best journalists are not journalists at all. They are old school novelists. Fiction, particularly crime fiction, remains one of... Read More

I have a confession: as a child I was the biggest Harry Potter fan in the muggle world. I had the books in special-edition hardback. A... Read More

There’s too little sex and violence in Christopher Nolan’s Odyssey. And it matters. There’s too little religion and... Read More

In June 1973, chestnut colt Secretariat ran the Belmont Stakes so fast that no horse has matched him since. In less than two and a half... Read More