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It was the second week of December 2017, and my wife and I were at Heathrow airport, waiting to board a flight to Germany. Just before... Read More

As a Yankee fan I should be happy to see the Mets’ deal with free agent shortstop Carlos Correa fall through after a doctor raised... Read More

The Fabelmans, Steven Spielberg’s fictionalized autobiography, is up for seven Oscars this year. The nominations include best... Read More

America is a big, complicated place—and, as the Founders knew, pluralism was essential to holding together our shared experiment in... Read More

Bret Easton Ellis walked out of the elevator of the Loews Regency at 61st and Park Avenue on a Friday afternoon in late January wearing... Read More

Salman rushdie’s new novel, Victory City, purports to be the summary of a long-lost, 24,000-verse epic poem from 14th-century... Read More

Moodboarding is a practice that countless artists, designers, and other creatives have privately utilized for decades, and something that... Read More

Even experts on the subject could be forgiven for holding the mistaken view that natural disasters have gotten significantly more frequent,... Read More

Stuart Scott was one of the voices of my generation, yet he’s been silent since 2015. His death was sad, since by all accounts he led... Read More

Before Tuesday night’s game between the New York Knicks and the Los Angeles Lakers, LeBron James stood a hundred and seventeen points... Read More

The challenge in making ambitious movies goes beyond budgetary restrictions. It also involves the changing threshold for tolerating... Read More

In 2017, when The Night Ocean by Paul La Farge was published, I urged everyone I knew to read it. “What is it?” many of... Read More

This month, we’ve got our eyes on My Nemesis, Stone Cold Fox, and seven other titles by writers on the West. Read More

A few times a year, the writers Yiyun Li and A. M. Homes sit down to lunch. As friends, they often find themselves talking about almost... Read More

On the day that she died Bian Zhongyun shook hands with her husband before she left for work. She knew the violence that awaited her at the... Read More

Around dinner time on November 21, 2000, a nervous nineteen-year-old man knocked on the door of Maria Joel Dias da Costa’s house,... Read More

A law professor, public intellectual, and federal appellate judge, Richard Posner was a giant. He wrote some sixty books, on topics ranging... Read More

The trouble began for Lincoln Jones, as it did for so many in the summer of 2020, with the black square. Jones, 47, is a longtime and... Read More

Is it really the end times, when anthropomorphic chocolate gets less “sexy”? American TV host Tucker Carlson’s campaign... Read More

In his 1963 book, The Conservative Affirmation, republished in 2022 by Regnery Books, Kendall sought to define an American... Read More

In late October 2022, a big-time streaming star returned to the city where it all began for him. Ralph Macchio (most recently of “Cobra... Read More

She Said, a film that follows two New York Times reporters as they hunt Harvey Weinstein, debuted in October to rave reviews. Variety... Read More

So, now what? There’s no way to tell you what football will look like without Tom Brady, because he built so much of it for the past... Read More

In 1976, Nanda Devi Unsoeld, the daughter of legendary alpinist Willi Unsoeld, died while climbing the massive Indian peak for which she was... Read More

Some say that beauty is in the eyes of the beholder, but is this really true, or have we come to accept such a statement without much... Read More

If you asked 10 Americans, “Who was James Dickey?,” my guess is that half would shrug, four would identify him as the author of... Read More

To understand the possibilities that nuclear fission has opened for industrial civilization, we must first understand how industrialization... Read More

When Dan Cogan co-founded Impact Partners in 2007 with the goal of making good documentaries that also did good for the world, it was the... Read More

Welcome back to another year in books. Already, 2023 has yielded a massive bounty of extraordinary new reads—in fact, the stacks are... Read More

The story of David Koresh and the siege of the Branch Davidians’ compound near Waco, Texas, is by turns gripping, harrowing and... Read More

Brandon Cronenberg’s new thriller Infinity Pool imagines a world where it’s possible to get away with murder, provided 1)... Read More

“The Noise of Typewriters” is part memoir of Lance Morrow, quasi-biography of Time magazine co-founder Henry Luce, and... Read More

In 2011 Harvard Professor of English and noted historicist critic Stephen Greenblatt published The Swerve. In this fascinating, if... Read More