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Traffic was at a standstill on Interstate 40 through the Pigeon River Gorge when the message came through.  Whoa. Breaking News. Dolly... Read More

There exists such a thing as a “poet’s novel” — that is, a novel written by a writer who is primarily a poet. Notable... Read More

Salman Rushdie has declared that artificial intelligence has no role to play in literature, cinema or storytelling of any kind, dismissing... Read More

Given America’s 250th, I postponed my art-news piece for June as well as the announcement of my first Supreme Flower of Nitwittery... Read More

Halfway through 2026. Only halfway through 2026? Already halfway through 2026? It’s impossible to know how to feel about time passing... Read More

The US Women’s National Team is a major player in FIFA’s Women’s World Cup, having won two of the last three and four since... Read More

As religious polarization increases, so has the conflict between two visions of America’s identity. Vice President JD Vance has... Read More

Two hundred fifty years and two days into the American experiment, a 55-year-old bespectacled bald man from Liverpool enters a sterile hotel... Read More

In the extensive coverage of this year’s July 4 celebrations in Washington, DC, it was often mentioned that 850,000 fireworks were... Read More

Some people are surprised that there are almost no male characters in my novel. Really? I thought the myth that women spend most of their... Read More

I grew up with an older sister and two older female cousins. We didn’t all live in the same state. We didn’t have the same... Read More

From Nantucket’s cottages to Malibu’s beaches, from urban parks to Midwestern hammocks: it’s time to pick a spot and hunker... Read More

Leaders within top AI firms and independent researchers have been speculating about when, or if, we should take into consideration how the... Read More

If you asked me who my favorite contemporary comic poet is, I wouldn’t hesitate a second. It’s Billy Collins, U.S. Poet Laureate... Read More

If offered the choice, how many of us would take riches, fame, and recognition, even if the price is a half-life? We know from fairy tales... Read More

At a Palo Alto, California, record store in September 1975, the latest issue of Rolling Stone caught the eye of local high school student... Read More

After a long and merciless winter, summer is upon us, and with it, the urgent need for beach reads, pool reads, park reads, fire escape... Read More

Cable television, the source you turn to if you’re looking for a veritable cornucopia of drug commercials with bits of mid-tier shows... Read More

Brooklyn in July. Everywhere is hot. I fill a water bottle, put my swim suit on underneath a pair of shorts, throw my cap and goggles into a... Read More

‘The coin don’t have no say. It’s just you,” Carla Jean Moss says to the psychopathic killer Anton Chigurh. He... Read More

Twenty-three hundred years ago, the legend goes, King Ptolemy I of Egypt asked his court adviser to assemble a comprehensive collection of... Read More

Once we had ventured far enough into America to no longer be anywhere near the mood-lit wine bars and overrun coffee shops of North Brooklyn,... Read More

Julius Evola died in Rome in 1974, and has since become one of the most important thinkers of the global radical right. T-shirts bearing his... Read More

If my father caught me drinking water in his presence, he’d call me a “water boy” and ride me without mercy. Read More

The CNN host that afternoon in 1990 expected a debate, not a fistfight. On one side was John Frohnmayer, chairman of the National Endowment... Read More

In the 102nd minute of his team’s epic World Cup match against soccer powerhouse Argentina, with viewers around the globe hanging on... Read More

On our second day in Tampa, we went to the beach. I love Miami beaches, but the water on the west coast of this state is just better. Clear... Read More

Toward the end of “Lake Effect,” the new novel by Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney, Clara Larkin recounts at a dinner party the... Read More

Since its release on May 25, the disparate critical responses of Pope Leo’s encyclical on artificial intelligence, Magnifica humanitas,... Read More

It’s not often an article pops up on the computer that impacts me as personally as “My Relationship with... Read More

America is in a time of God. America has always been in a time of God. Lost somewhere between eternity and Jetztzeit, Americans are haunted... Read More

Ever since the Constitution was written the issue of libel has generated problems. The Founders were fully aware of the inherent tension... Read More

My neighbor, a kind elderly Jewish woman with a Jack Russell Terrier named Fauci, knocked on our door last week, offering an American flag... Read More

In his 1987 novel The Bonfire of the Vanities, Tom Wolfe lampooned 1980s New York City—including its rampant street crime,... Read More

It’s strange to think that Jamie Muscato fell into musical theater. “I never really wanted to do it,” the British actor... Read More

The Iran war is the theater for the most expansive use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) platforms to date. Some have even called it the... Read More

Few documents have been scrutinized more than our Declaration of Independence, with particular attention lavished on the truth that all men... Read More

In this World Cup-crazed summer, the timing of a Manhattan retrospective on Italian historical cinema has felt at times like a sly joke about... Read More