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In 2022 and early 2023, as Americans shed their masks and began congregating in public again after the end of COVID-19, a strange phenomenon... Read More

The Big Tech companies have spent $1 trillion on capital investment since the start of the artificial-intelligence boom. Pretty much all that... Read More

Somewhere in America right now, a 26-year-old is standing in his bathroom, downing his stack: creatine, a fistful of supplements, ashwagandha... Read More

The first one thousand fans through the gates of the Aqueduct Racetrack on the last Sunday of June received a commemorative vial of track... Read More

As if planning a first date weren’t stressful enough, a new expectation for guys has emerged: sending their date an Uber to pick them... Read More

The Smithsonian is still in the news, and, it seems, it’s the Swamp’s most soigné snake. Its American History Museum... Read More

Toward the end of his last novel, 2017’s The Sarah Book, Scott McClanahan reads to his children from a Sesame Street book. This is a... Read More

“Do we like the eyeliner or no?” Sombr is strutting across the stage, dragging the microphone stand by its neck and headbanging... Read More

They tread a landscape existentially threatened by human wreckage yet are drawn to their fellow species, intriguing and strangely... Read More

Halloween of 1981 arrives for the privileged heroes of FX/Hulu’s The Shards. Debbie (Hayes Warner), spoiled daughter of Hollywood... Read More

Why do so many people aspire to fame, and why do the children of celebrities—like Gracie Abrams—so often become the center of a... Read More

In Chicago, authenticity is everything. Chicagoans can sniff out a poser from a mile away—whether a fake foodie (ketchup on a hot dog?... Read More

I’d been working with a psychotherapist for nearly a year before I realized I was attracted to her. The shift happened about 10 months... Read More

It’s hard to believe this summer marks six decades since the Beatles, the greatest of pop-rock bands, released the album that truly... Read More

When the world needed Phoebe Bridgers the most, she vanished. It’s been six years since she released her breakout hit album Punisher... Read More

I went viral on X last week by surfacing a remarkable fact: For the first time on record, more Americans consume marijuana every day than... Read More

To announce that you are embarking on a course of psychoanalytic training today is tantamount, in many quarters, to admitting that you plan... Read More

When Substack launched, nine years ago, working journalists thought this new platform might manage the unthinkable: make their profession... Read More

IS BLASPHEMY STILL POSSIBLE in the age of shitposting? We are surrounded everywhere by sanctimony, but very little is sacred. One exception... Read More

Every morning, I log onto TikTok and scroll past a video that triggers my complex post-traumatic stress disorder. Most of these videos... Read More

No one has any idea what’s happening in the book publishing industry. The entire bookselling model has undergone such a profound... Read More

Three years ago, Ariana Grande posted a video to social media with a clear message to fans: Whatever thoughts they had about her weight loss... Read More

Neither the book industry, nor the minds of consumers, nor the professional lives of authors are the same as they were 20 years ago. In fact,... Read More

Ten years ago, when I first began submitting to literary journals, many of these journals had very forbidding websites. The site would be... Read More

Every nation tells itself a story about where it came from. Arguably, the question that matters more than any particular facts is who gets to... Read More

IT IS AUGUST 10, 1862, in Baden-Baden, a German resort town in the Black Forest region popular for gambling and the supposedly salubrious... Read More

This special veterans edition of "Get Real" with David DesRosiers speaks with:DecoratedNavy SEAL Jason Redman about TurboVets, an AI-driven... Read More

When its comes to modern stories involving spies and espionage during World War II, there are a few annoyances that audiences have no choice... Read More

A new kind of writing has emerged in the last few decades. The prose is sparse, the chapters are short. At their best, the sentences are... Read More

Writers have bad readers; in private life, these critics are called psychiatrists. The catastrophe suffered by the lunatic is unlike that... Read More

I became a Sonny Rollins fan on my 13th birthday, when my dad took me for the first time to his favorite record store in Portland, Oregon. He... Read More