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For more than 40 years, you’ve been making horror movies about the human body. Shivers [1975] was about a deadly outbreak of... Read More

Countless luxuries have become such commonplaces that we thoughtlessly forget them. We can control the temperature of our rooms with the... Read More

In his elegant memoir of postwar Greenwich Village life, When Kafka Was the Rage, the literary critic Anatole Broyard wrote that... Read More

In 2012, when I was 21, I got a summer job in Mallorca. I’d been working there for a couple of months when Jonathan, a Cuban of my age... Read More

It is abundantly clear, nearly ten years since he descended that gold-trimmed escalator, that Donald Trump is the most significant political... Read More

One of comedy’s greatest stock characters is the guy who’s his own worst enemy. You know the type: Kramer... Read More

Given Hollywood’s current penchant for regurgitation, it’s surprising there haven’t been more Miami Vices since... Read More

Talking to LeBron James recently in Interview magazine, Ryan Coogler used a culinary metaphor: “I want people walking out of the... Read More

What’s an anti-woke intellectual warrior to do these days? There are two clear paths: the victory lap or the firm turn against MAGA.... Read More

I have just failed to preserve a beautiful tree from being felled. Worse, I have become complicit in its destruction. I may never be sure... Read More

As someone who wrote a book about Taylor Swift, I’ve heard my fair share of strong opinions about why she hit it big. Wealthy parents.... Read More

Picture this: your first marriage, to a billionaire, goes belly-up, and you’re in your 50s, and it’s time for your next act. You... Read More

My childhood nostalgia is different from others. When in sweet silent thought I summon up remembrance of things past, I don’t mull over... Read More

Throughout the history of the United States, when our nation faltered—when wounds ran deep and identities fractured—Americans did... Read More

For the past several weeks, fans of The White Lotus on Max (formerly HBO) relished sitting in judgment over the idle rich.... Read More

Last August, Phish hosted a four-day music festival at a racetrack in Dover, Delaware. It was called Mondegreen—the word for a misheard... Read More

SAN FRANCISCO—On the sidewalk in front of a nondescript building on an unremarkable street in a nameless neighborhood one recent... Read More

At the Art Institute of Chicago, Joan Didion and her daughter, Quintana, were looking at a painting by Georgia O’Keeffe. The work, Sky... Read More

No one much liked the solitary writer Cornell Woolrich, except Hollywood, which devoured many of his noir novels and short stories, with... Read More

About an hour into our flight, Joe Anoa’i tells me a secret: Roman Reigns isn’t going to win the Royal Rumble. As far as spoilers... Read More

Christopher Nolan is the biggest brand-name movie director since the days of Steven Spielberg or George Lucas, which puts him in the running... Read More

THE SOUNDS ARE TERRIFYING. Cracks. Crunches. Crumbling. It's as if the enormous mountain outside has come alive tonight and is angry.... Read More

At 9:31 a.m. EDT yesterday, Katy Perry, in full hair and makeup wearing a designer cobalt blue bodysuit, was ready to make history. As she... Read More

Alek Minassian was an awkward kid in my high school. He’d meow at students in the cafeteria and could never look a woman in the eye.... Read More

In 1975, David Cronenberg’s debut feature film, Shivers (aka They Came With From Within, aka The Parasite Murders), was trashed by his... Read More

On the first day of the Trump Administration’s return to Washington, the White House issued a memorandum entitled “.” While... Read More

Prepare for the unprecedented: I am about to admit I was wrong. For years, I have celebrated the rise of new media and its impact on our... Read More

Recently, an enthusiast of the classics posted four translations of a passage from The Odyssey on X, asking his followers to pick... Read More

While limiting strings-attached grants and curbing federal regulation, President Trump’s efforts to dismantle the Department of... Read More

With the Ivy League under fire — from AI, from Trump, from its own students — it may finally be enough for young people to... Read More

A book that should be a part of every high school curriculum in America is Moving to Higher Ground: How Jazz Can Safe Your Life by... Read More

The all-female Blue Origin NS-13 Mission sparked some thoughts on American women and aeronautics and role models (here’s just the... Read More