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What’s become of the epistolary novel now that a narrator can get in touch with whomever they’d like in an instant? The form once... Read More

For those who work with words, the headlines these days aren’t especially friendly. AI to Replace Entry-Level Social-Media... Read More

I often publish interviews with authors here at Counter Craft but I’ve been meaning to expand the series to talk to... Read More

MADELINE HOWARD: The novel is broken up by cultural reports that Avery is working on for her media studies program. How did you conceive this... Read More

There’s a certain kind of film that weighs heavily on America’s collective nostalgia for kinder and gentler times. Yet in the... Read More

In contemporary literature there have been few genres so confusingly and consistently debated as autofiction. Though generally ill-defined,... Read More

Counterintuitively, the best way to come to grips with the here and now is not to immerse oneself in the constant froth and daily firestorms... Read More

In 2023, then-U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy released a bombshell report, “Our Epidemic of Loneliness and Isolation,” that... Read More

There’s a trite observation to be made, in times like these, that reality seems to outstrip fiction. The novelist’s lament is... Read More

What did you hear? Really. Blonde on Blonde’s nasally whine or Nashville Skyline’s country croon? Which one is Bob... Read More

Last month, a company called the Children’s Literature Comprehensive Database announced a new version of a product called Class-Shelf... Read More

In mentioning Ken Burns‘ upcoming The American Revolution to casual observers, the most frequent response has been a variation on:... Read More

Within my first few days as a freshman at Brown, I joined two political clubs: the Brown Democrats and the Young Communist League. The latter... Read More

There’s a fight being waged for the soul of the right. It has taken the form of a reckoning over podcaster Tucker Carlson’s cozy... Read More

Birds, Beasts and Flowers (1923), D. H. Lawrence’s most monumental yet also strangest collection of poems, is a book of the... Read More

Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another depicts the desperate soul-searching of aging revolutionaries: Should we... Read More

While it’s likely enough that you’ve encountered tales of rivalries between best friends or biting portraits of coastal arts... Read More

The critic Alan Richman once gave Anthony Bourdain’s alma mater restaurant, Brasserie Les Halles, which was in New York’s... Read More

One of my earliest NBA memories is standing in a Muskogee Mazzio’s, gripping an empty plate, and watching Michael Jordan hit a... Read More

It started with the memes. People in the online know were all reading the tweets of Bronze Age Pervert. Quoting from neo-Nietzschean... Read More

Anika Jade Levy, the downtown writer and founding editor of Forever Magazine, describes Avery, the narrator of her debut... Read More

ONCE I WAS TRYING TO EXPLAIN my theory of a “perfect” movie and how it differed from “the best” movies. The... Read More

Our series of reflections on the place of the humanities in graduate education continues with this exchange between Point founding... Read More

Dear Republic, You might know Clare Ashcraft as the author of our most popular piece ever, “Gen Z is Worse Than You Think.” I was... Read More

I FOUND IT. These words were written in large black paint on the white wall of our yearbook office in high school. The phrase, both... Read More

“I fucked up,” SZA tells me. It’s been about a month and a half since the singer returned home to Los Angeles after... Read More