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That month of betwixt and between, we march into March yearning for spring, fortified with books across genres to steady our impatience.... Read More

The key question posed by Fifty Shades of Grey, as sociologist Eva Illouz recognizes in her brilliant 2014 book on the... Read More

“WHAT’S OUR FAIRY TALE?” Jack, our narrator, asks. “The Dream and the Disappointment?” In this scenario, Jack... Read More

In 2012, M.L. Stedman’s debut novel, The Light Between Oceans, bounded onto bestseller lists around the world like a globetrotting... Read More

There is a famous quote attributed to Leon Trotsky to the effect of: “You may not be interested in the war, but war is interested in... Read More

While others have worried, loudly, about the death of white men in literary fiction — a generation lost to the trenches... Read More

Two years ago, at the age of 39, I began training to be a school teacher. I wanted to teach English – to help young people become... Read More

Milan, Italy  —  There comes a time during fashion week, as you look at a throng of photographers fighting to capture photos... Read More

Last week the American people were served up two good “let the midterm rumble begin” spectacles: President Trump’s State of... Read More

California’s $200 billion-a-year Medicaid program, known as Medi-Cal, is one of the largest public healthcare systems in the nation.... Read More

In March, the Criterion Channel, the premier streaming service for the best and most interesting movies, is offering “VHS... Read More

Consistently popular throughout the history of the internet has been the dream of a global town square. In the early summer of 2021, this... Read More

If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, Bruno Mars’ heroes are drowning in compliments. The pop juggernaut has always been... Read More

antiart’s viral declaration last year that Dimes Square is dead and nothing good came out of it is almost convincing. After... Read More

I went to Emerald Fennell’s “Wuthering Heights” expecting a vibe—and in this aspect, at the very least, it does not... Read More

EXT. WASATCH MOUNTAINS—AFTERNOON   THREE MEN stand huddled together in deep snow, beneath a great wall of mountains. Blue sky... Read More

was a big fan of John Patton Ford’s Emily the Criminal (2022), a compelling drama about working-class life in the... Read More

It may be the first time that a work of fiction has tanked the stock market. Last week, a viral blog post from Citrini Research... Read More

Around the mid-1970s in Latin America raged what the Uruguayan literary critic Ángel Rama once called the ‘catastrophic... Read More

Every fall, I attempt to convince my yearly cohort of college-counseling students that writing is the single most important skill they will... Read More

It would be an understatement to say that the modern world has not been conducive to human flourishing. There is a sense that every... Read More

Conspiracy thinking is as old as politics. The state names an enemy inside its own house — real or invented — and uses... Read More

Every great invention is also a question. Consider the telescope. It certainly has practical applications—it can help you scope out a... Read More

In the spring of 1929, a philosophical debate was held in the resort town of Davos, Switzerland, that historians now see as a defining moment... Read More

In 2016, Svetlana Satchkova left Moscow for the United States because she was concerned about her son’s and her own safety under... Read More

The odds of filling out a perfect NCAA bracket are one in nine quintillion, two hundred twenty-three quadrillion, three-hundred-seventy-two... Read More

A decade ago, when I became a stay-at-home dad, I was too busy sanitizing baby bottles and washing reusable diapers to read a short story,... Read More