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Every summer, the same flood of new books hits the shelves, each one apparently more unmissable than the last. The truth is, most... Read More

On a summer evening in 2024, two bullets pierced the walls of our home in Washington, D.C. One shattered the leg of my writing desk, where I... Read More

In 2004, Anna Kournikova stepped onto the court at the World Team Tennis Smash Hits charity event wearing a pink diamond ring so cartoonishly... Read More

The movie The Nutty Professor, both the original 1963 version starring Jerry Lewis and the successful remake by Eddie... Read More

To me it seems like there has been a lot of creation coming out of the Midwest over the past couple of years. Maybe it’s because... Read More

When I was sixteen, I learned the word agonistes from an article about Roberto Baggio in a British soccer magazine. Baggio had... Read More

For two-thirds of the last generation, the United States presidency has been held by one man or another born in the summer of 1946. Of the... Read More

For nearly 35 years, H. W. (Harry) Crocker III ran the editorial department at Regnery Publishing—America’s then-leading... Read More

The Trump administration announced Tuesday that it’s moving the Education Department’s special-education programs and... Read More

As a young man I set out from Austin to Montana. I was in search of open spaces and big skies, remote wonder, Western transcendence. I was... Read More

Every four years during my childhood, I watched my dad, whose name is Juan Pablo, stuff a backpack with rolled-up tech pants, tiny... Read More

‘Many people, including myself, spend a lot of time thinking about the past. And if you’re living in the same house you were... Read More

Higher education in the United States has been the subject of considerable criticism, especially in the last ten years or so. With the early... Read More

There was a boy in postwar Liverpool, and his name was Mike. Mike had a girlfriend named Celia, who once let him borrow a record by an... Read More

On Thursday morning, my son Ben and I joined more than a million Knicks fans in Lower Manhattan to raucously celebrate New York’s NBA... Read More

In a 2014 blog post titled “No One is Bored, Everything is Boring,” the British cultural theorist Mark Fisher refined the... Read More

Spectacle has always been Steven Spielberg’s primary idiom, the language in which he expresses himself most naturally. As a precocious... Read More

BEN GIBBARD EMERGES from the elevator bank at precisely 8 a.m., because he is never late. The Death Cab for Cutie front man is wearing gray... Read More

I’ve never much liked horses. The first time I meet my sister-in-law is at the stables, where she keeps an enormous bay stallion with... Read More

If England has Shakespeare, Spain has Cervantes, Italy has Dante, and Russia has Pushkin, then who do we have? Do we have a great poet who... Read More

I hope I will not shock anyone reading this by admitting that I am not a straight woman—nor for that matter a woman of any... Read More

1. People say retirement communities in Florida are famously replete with venereal disease while others say no, our elderly do not do this,... Read More

With Juneteenth celebrated this month, I was curious about America’s Black women poets. So I went to my New Oxford Book of American... Read More

The original Toy Story is not a movie about children. It’s about envy, status anxiety, and a workplace that threatens to become toxic.... Read More

Our summer issue features a folio on AI in which a group of literary writers and critics pause to think through a technology evolving so... Read More

Most histories of the American founding celebrate its courage. Lawrence Reed’s new book Born of Ideas does that too, but it does... Read More