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Give or take a day, Willie Nelson has been alive for 48,702,240 minutes. For that reason alone, I hesitated when a publicist recently asked... Read More

By now, you have probably heard about Train Dreams. Since premiering this past January at Sundance, Clint Bentley’s adaptation of... Read More

In 2011, the online lifestyle magazine xoJane launched a much-lauded — and, later, much-parodied — personal essay series called... Read More

Take a look at the following sentence in David Mamet’s new book, The Disenlightenment, and see if you can make more sense of it... Read More

I love napping. I love napping in the summer, when rhythms are more relaxed and the guilt of taking a break less intense (if only slightly).... Read More

The opening credits of Marty Supreme features retro animation of a sperm fertilizing a giant egg; as Alphaville’s... Read More

Let's face it: 2025 wasn't funny. At all. Everything got expensive. There were ICE raids and more mass shootings. Our institutions resembled... Read More

Novels that foreground faith (or lack of faith, for that matter) are not exactly rare birds, but they don’t appear on my radar... Read More

Sven Beckert’s doorstop of a book is supremely ambitious, an insightful and well-illustrated history by the Harvard historian who... Read More

In a chaotic and distressing year, books provided a respite, a chance to commune with works of coherent voice and vision. Some people find it... Read More

In this episode of The Miller Report: Real Clear Journalism, we discuss the latest piece from reporter Maggie Phillips, which reveals... Read More

We recently spoke with author Howard Schaap about his debut memoir from Slant, Brooding Upon the Waters. Read More

Cloning is back, baby—and with it, our fascination. No longer carrying a thrilling frisson of disaster, it slowly appears to be... Read More

About halfway through Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning, Tom Cruise goes for a run on a treadmill. The treadmill is on the... Read More

Olivia Nuzzi has always known how to spot a good story, especially when she can put herself in the middle of it. The now-infamous journalist,... Read More

I. Fifty-six-year-old Elizabeth Gilbert is one of the bestselling authors of this millennium. Her nine books—memoirs, fiction, and a... Read More

After over a decade of critical furor around how novels would incorporate (and survive) plot-destroying phones and social media, the latest... Read More

As a producer of sentences, paragraphs, and pages worth reading, John Updike was voluminous. Over the course of his life he steadily,... Read More

Cameron Crowe’s long-awaited memoir The Uncool can be read intertextually as the real Almost Famous. Read More

Author Ben Appel found that he didn’t need to live in a religious commune to experience cult dynamics. He only needed to go to... Read More

I was 18 when I met my first pick-up artist. It was my first year of university and I was at a Halloween house party, dressed as a... Read More

Since the pandemic, social media feeds have been quietly bearing witness to a small but revealing homesteading revival. For many, the grocery... Read More

Many conservatives, myself included, have recognized the wisdom of a populist turn in our politics. A roused populace was necessary to... Read More

Every era of easy money produces its speculative mascots. In the late 1990s, it was Beanie Babies — tiny stuffed animals that cost... Read More

No matter where one looks these days, there is an explosion of anger over the decline in political ethics and the dominant role now played by... Read More