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I promised Santiago I’d stop trying to make every column I write for Wisdom of Crowds somehow about magic. But... Read More

It doesn’t matter what I say to defend a band like Korn. I can—and often do—make the claim that they are the most... Read More

We need to talk about student writing. For the past decade or so, I have worked with students to help them prepare essays for applications to... Read More

What does it take to get a fantasy novel published these days, if not a famous name and a great manuscript? Judging by The... Read More

The poet and critic cannot afford to be patient and yet must be patient anyway. The actual writing will come at the caprice of occasion,... Read More

The addresses collected in We Have Ceased to See the Purpose: Essential Speeches of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn were written by a man on... Read More

Have you heard the news? My people, the White Male Writers, are vanishing. It’s a terrible situation. The other day, I was walking down... Read More

Here’s a hypothetical: your newborn and your grandma are drowning. If you can only save one of them, who do you save? Now it’s... Read More

Steve Buscemi often plays the trickster: the aggrieved huckster, the jack-of-all-trades struggling to make it work through zany gig after... Read More

Cast adrift in an inky abyss and cleaved from the terrestrial realm that defines us, the human is forced by the hostile vacuum of outer space... Read More

Tonight’s the night. To get ready, you pour yourself a glass of Johnnie Walker Squid Game whisky and comb your hair with your... Read More

In surveys of historically underestimated writers that appear occasionally in publications like the Time Literary Supplement and,... Read More

California’s economic, academic, media, and political establishment still embraces the notion of the state’s inevitable... Read More

When Henry James decided to come to America in 1904 and 1905, his elder brother, William James, was not immediately pleased. William said... Read More

An important difference between the nineteenth and the twentieth centuries,” observed the Polish poet Czesław Miłosz,... Read More

On Sept. 19, 1994, a week before Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell declared that there was no legislative path forward in the current... Read More

The 1980s marked the return of a lot of things. They were called “the greed decade,” which really meant that materialism was... Read More

I’m not sure how I got here, into these pages. Lately I’ve found myself in a lot of unfamiliar places: in conversation with... Read More

Jim Dandy might be the racehorse most famous for losing. The story isn’t heartwarming enough for a folksy biopic or a Laura Hillenbrand... Read More

 However much we steel ourselves against it, the arrogant and dismissive attitude of 19th-century men toward their female contemporaries... Read More

Among the dozens of stories Mary Gaitskill has published since her 1988 debut Bad Behavior, only one — “Secretary,” a... Read More

Leslie Bibb stops herself midway through a long and beautiful rumination about season 3 of The White Lotus to exclaim, “I’m like... Read More

To slop or not to slop. It was one of those days on the internet. Last week, after the introduction of Open AI’s 4o model enabled... Read More

It wouldn’t be hard to make the case that Olivia Dunne (you probably know her as Livvy) and Paul Skenes are the archetypal Gen Z power... Read More

Mike White has spent the bulk of his career in Hollywood under the radar, helming underseen critical darlings like HBO’s Enlightened... Read More

In my neighborhood just outside of Washington, D.C., most Tesla owners I come across now have a bumper sticker with the words “I bought... Read More

For anyone who grew up watching movies in the 1980s, Val Kilmer, who died Tuesday, was something of an anomaly among the young Hollywood... Read More

In this episode of The Miller Report: Real Clear Journalism, we examine a Senate Judiciary Subcommittee hearing led this week by... Read More

Of all the characters in Olivia Manning’s Balkan Trilogy, her three-volume chronicle of the early moments of the Second World War,... Read More

It’s understandable why Blue Road: The Edna O’Brien Story, was ignored by feminists, even though the film was screened in... Read More