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In April of this year, 22-year-old Erin St. Gull printed out a hundred copies of a one-page document and hung them up around Toronto. She... Read More

COOPER MANNING HAS unique insight into the mind and psyche of quarterbacks. He's the son of a legend, Archie. He's the brother of two... Read More

When Lena Dunham first met her future husband, she told him two things: “I was sick, and people did not like me. If he could be... Read More

Is it possible to be a country writer, the same way one can be a country singer? No; we do not use this terminology. We say “agrarian... Read More

Oops. Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez — the Democratic Party’s biggest star and heir apparent — went viral this week... Read More

You can hardly imagine the British without their novels. How would the British be understood without the observations and provocations of... Read More

Aryna Sabalenka did not get completely drunk. In July, Sabalenka, the world’s top-ranked women’s tennis player, lost to Naomi... Read More

America’s national anthem – “The Star-Spangled Banner” – is beautiful. But what if Americans could choose a... Read More

When I was 22, I met, and later fell in love with, a woman who had impeccable taste. She dressed well; that was the first thing I noticed.... Read More

This year marks the first time Keri Russell and Matthew Rhys will attend the Emmys together as nominees for different projects: Between... Read More

“100% of this text is AI” is the new Scarlet Letter of dunking on people and posts. I don’t love it; it feels bad to have... Read More

Today’s best journalists are not journalists at all. They are old school novelists. Fiction, particularly crime fiction, remains one of... Read More

I have a confession: as a child I was the biggest Harry Potter fan in the muggle world. I had the books in special-edition hardback. A... Read More

There’s too little sex and violence in Christopher Nolan’s Odyssey. And it matters. There’s too little religion and... Read More

In June 1973, chestnut colt Secretariat ran the Belmont Stakes so fast that no horse has matched him since. In less than two and a half... Read More

William Wordsworth wrote the following of a bust of Isaac Newton that is still on display at the University of Cambridge: And from my... Read More

Philadelphia, 2019. An Uber is hauling me to the nearest Alcoholics Anonymous meeting, and I ask the driver to name the best parts of... Read More

June 12, 2026 Our shop is in an old service station in a charming alpine town nestled within Utah’s Wasatch Mountains. Here’s the... Read More

Once, at a cocktail party, I had an encounter—calling it a conversation is a stretch—with a creative director of a middlingly... Read More

A professional slight kicks off Colson Whitehead’s third crime caper. Harlem merchant Ray Carney has just wrapped up an interview with... Read More

I have briefly and shallowly encountered Patrick Deneen’s ideas on a couple separate occasions while at Colgate, so I don’t know... Read More

James Ellroy is the author of, among other works, the Underworld U.S.A. Trilogy (American Tabloid, The Cold Six Thousand, and Blood’s a... Read More

The way we view complex, occasionally sinister, culture-defining institutions is largely shaped by one man: Aaron Sorkin. A Few Good Men (the... Read More

In late December, Stripe CEO and tech billionaire Patrick Collison and libertarian economist Tyler Cowen published a one-page website with... Read More

A spectre haunted this summer’s football World Cup — the spectre of Pep Guardiola. The Catalan coach, who finished as manager of... Read More

I’ve never not worked, in addition to writing. My books are not a job because no one needs them; their superfluousness is essential to... Read More

Is New York Times v. Sullivan, the case in which the Supreme Court sharply limited libel suits by public officials—a group later... Read More

My name is Noelle, and I'm a fan of the world's largest operating steam locomotive. I used to think this was a unique fact about me. But... Read More

August is supposed to be fully clear of Pride month, according to the calendar. But when I popped by a popular harvest festival in my... Read More

Most pitches I now receive are clearly leeched from large language models (LLM). About once a week I come across an article in a magazine, or... Read More