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I. The initial pleasure of an Éric Rohmer film is the pleasure of a beautiful face. The initial response of any viewer is a dazed... Read More

The Sun Also Rises made me a writer. It also showed me another way to live. I read it one summer when I was home from college. My job was... Read More

Jay McInerney would later say of the Literary Brat Pack, a cohort of twentysomething fiction writers with flashy debuts in the mid-1980s,... Read More

Sveriges Television (SVT), Sweden’s tax-funded public service broadcaster, has recently launched Silent Attraction, which seems to be... Read More

“It feels somehow shifty and . . . dishonest, making a buck writing,” Anthony Bourdain wrote in his celebrated 2000 memoir,... Read More

"In recent decades," Stephanie Coontz writes, "many parts of the world have seen a revival of the more pernicious form of nostalgia …... Read More

You wonder what Irvine Welsh wanted. Having sold more than six million books easily makes him one of the UK’s most successful literary... Read More

EVE BABITZ RETURNED WHEN WE NEEDED HER MOST: in the late 2010s and early 2020s, when the pressures created by a rapidly shrinking media... Read More

The biggest hit of the summer, of the year, is Spider-Man: Brand New Day, starring Tom Holland as Peter Parker in his fourth outing in the... Read More

By the time Chibuike was 24 years old, he had been kicked out of his family home multiple times, developed a drug addiction, attempted... Read More

Look, the kid is fine at soccer. At 11, he’s competitive, and he loves the game. But if his mother, Elizabeth, had it her way, he would... Read More

The tech boom of the past quarter century has been one of the greatest wealth creation events in human history. Our species’ addiction... Read More

Richard Russo fans will recognize some familiar markers of his fiction in his latest novel, Under the Falls. The setting is a landscape of... Read More

On a swaying-palms kind of night in January, I hopped into the back seat of Jeff Zalaznick’s Range Rover to accompany him on his... Read More

It’s odd, when you think about it, that there is no major, comprehensive museum devoted to American music. One can after all make a... Read More

Why does Odysseus weep? Seated as a guest of the Phaeacians, the wandering hero in disguise is treated to a feast, followed by entertainment:... Read More

Throughout 2026, I’ve reported on how the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation—the country’s largest private funder of the arts and... Read More

Somewhere in the bowels of Palms Casino Resort, just off the Las Vegas Strip, is a recording studio that has seen countless victories.... Read More

In the ‘Freedom of Self-Consciousness’ chapter of The Phenomenology of Spirit, which follows the better-known parable about the... Read More

The mama lion shouldn’t be here. The sun is too high, the air is too hot, and she has cubs hiding somewhere in the brush. But there she... Read More

The End of Oak Street is a movie from another time. I mean this both literally and figuratively. In the literal sense, The End of Oak Street... Read More

I have spent most of my adult life in elite universities; first as a student, then doing teaching and research. It now feels inevitable that... Read More

In April, the writer Helen DeWitt sparked an internet furor by turning down the $175,000 Windham-Campbell Literature Prize. Dewitt explained... Read More

Is the rapid growth of therapy today making people worse, not better? Might it be a cause, perhaps even the central cause, of today’s... Read More

The workday started at 7:00, but it was not until 7:22 that Tommy Keough and his rusted-out clunker, with its yellow party plates, noisily... Read More

The most thrilling dinosaur movie in decades comes not from any “Jurassic Park” sequel or spin-off, but from a strikingly... Read More

LOVERS XXX (2026) tells the story of best friends Winnie and Jude. The novel, set in the neon-lit porn scene of 1980s Los Angeles, follows... Read More

In Los Angeles, Tea at Shiloh describes itself as a “late night teahouse.” Here, visitors can reserve slots from 7 to 11 p.m. to... Read More

Let me begin with breakfast. You wake up, shuffle to the kitchen. Coffee or juice? A small decision, trivial. And yet nested inside that... Read More