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If a DVD owner from the year 2005 found herself transported back to a video store circa 1982, she would likely find the space remarkably... Read More

When you’re trying to cross the road and a homeless person is loitering at the crosswalk, what do you do? Do you speed up — going... Read More

Returning to Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence From Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson is a fraught undertaking. As a teenager I feverishly... Read More

Sheryl Sandberg is back. In her best-selling 2013 book Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead, the former chief operating officer at... Read More

It’s almost never a good sign when Thucydides is in the news. The ancient Greek historian of the Peloponnesian War is typically invoked... Read More

I went to undergrad in my hometown of Chattanooga, Tennessee, and took a Contemporary Southern Lit course, in which we read Bobbie Ann Mason,... Read More

At first I did not enthuse very much about this country, but now I am fond of it, and would not consider leaving it.William Boeing on the... Read More

Artists have been reimagining The Odyssey for as long as it’s existed. During the early centuries of the first millennium BCE, the... Read More

At the end of August this summer, I’m going to be back in the college classroom for the first time in three years—or,... Read More

“I cannot in my wildest fantasies see myself making it past fifty or fifty-five,” wrote Dave Eggers in his first book,... Read More

The Islanders were getting spray tans, dialed to the maximum flow control. Their veneers were being set. Their personal trainers were on... Read More

Nobody knows for sure where the name came from. Oregon, I mean. There are a couple dozen theories. Maybe those sounds started as something in... Read More

On this week’s episode of the RealClearInvestigations Podcast, RCI Editor J. Peder Zane and RCI Senior Reporter James Varney speak with... Read More

One of the great canards of the culture wars is that you couldn’t make Blazing Saddles today. It’s a half-truth that disguises a... Read More

Frank Miller is now sorry about his graphic novel Holy Terror, which was published in 2011. Miller is known as a comic book genius, the man... Read More

As with Frankenstein, Dracula, Sherlock Holmes, and many other timeless literary figures, so it is with Ulysses. Every generation gets the... Read More

It's now unquestionable: Spider-Man is the most popular character in the history of pop culture. Peter Parker and his adventures have... Read More

Glen Hansard was, first and foremost, a live performer. The Irish folk rock legend’s life was tragically cut short this week at the age... Read More

After holding a developmental reading of a play I have been working on about a fictional transhumanist and his world, I was able to briefly... Read More

County Highway, a bi-monthly magazine about America in the form of a 19th century newspaper, has published a book that celebrates America to... Read More

Before shooting up Mother Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, S.C., in 2015, Dylann Roof "spent months visiting local museums and plantations... Read More

“Say man, you got a joint?” a stoner played by Matthew McConaughey asks a high schooler in Richard Linklater’s “Dazed... Read More

The new Charli xcx album closes with an address from David Cronenberg, who slowly enunciates what it’s like to almost die. “As I... Read More

American race relations are at a crossroads. In the years since our current racial bargain was struck in the 1960s, our country has coped... Read More

Of Pascal’s famous wager on the existence of God, Denis Diderot dryly remarked, nearly a century later, “Pascal says: If your... Read More

CHRISTOPHER NOLAN’S new adaptation of Homer’s Odyssey opens in the royal court of Ithaca. Surrounded by the numerous suitors of... Read More

Many wonder why I go on about Bards all the time. Here’s the thing: I’m a big fan of the Druid tradition reconstructed in Wales... Read More

When Christopher Nolan began work on his adaption of The Odyssey, he turned to a source he felt could best help him capture the Greek poem... Read More

Quentin Tarantino has semi-famously insisted that the 1980s represent a nadir for Hollywood filmmaking, his least favorite decade in the... Read More

The last pre-covid exhibition at the gallery Reena Spaulings Fine Art in downtown New York was titled Paint-It-Yourself. The exhibit, showing... Read More

In his book By the Dawn’s Early Light, Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts paints a picture of a not-so-recent American... Read More

American Quartet was originally commissioned to serve as part of the celebration of our nation’s semiquincentennial. The poems were... Read More

I remember it well: working hard during those hot Georgia summers. Memory tends to preserve certain things whole, like insects caught in... Read More

What happens when a writer finally loses their mind and decides to write a book anyway? While I doubt Mark Haber has lost his mind, or that... Read More