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From celebrity book clubs to the revival of the edgy literary party, being a book lover is in. Dior has launched new versions of their Book... Read More

When you hear the phrase “Ancient Greece”, what are the first words that come into your head? The names of a few great thinkers,... Read More

The Instagram account belonging to Tilly Norwood went live just over a year ago. Today, Norwood has more than 175,000 followers on the... Read More

GWENDOLINE RILEY, THE FEROCIOUSLY TALENTED forty-seven-year-old British novelist, is deeply and rightly admired—by younger female... Read More

What spoke to me the most about the Instagram announcement for the new Manhattan restaurant Somssi was the fact that it was done in such an... Read More

Odysseus was my hero when I was a child. I loved that he was a wanderer, an adventurer, a teller of tales, but most of all I loved that he... Read More

“Truth did not come into the world naked but in symbols and images.”—Gospel of Philip “Each life is a myth, a song... Read More

When my son Patrick told me three months ago that Bob Dylan was coming to Forest Hills Stadium in Queens and that he’d like to see the... Read More

With the release of Pope Leo XIV’s encyclical Magnifica Humanitas, mankind’s foremost moral authority—a Chicago-born priest... Read More

Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey now sits atop the box office, and—like millions across the country—I saw it on Friday... Read More

“Information wants to be free,” went a saying among early internet pioneers. Techno-optimists, toggling uneasily between... Read More

FACES ARE MADE BRIGHT by the shimmer of screens, stunned as they watch the world change forever. Broadcast around the globe is the first... Read More

Childhood itself has become an incubator for anxiety. Read More

Three thousand years ago, Homer gave us the face that launched a thousand ships. This weekend, Christopher Nolan gave us the film that... Read More

No character study of Odysseus comes closer to perfection than Tennyson’s:  And tho’  We are not now that strength... Read More

It is difficult to watch the work of an artist who is not a genius, and Christopher Nolan is no exception. His Odyssey, which was released... Read More

Henry Oliver is an English writer who runs the popular Substack The Common Reader and a podcast with the same name. He is a Research Fellow... Read More

John Berger had one of the longest and richest lives among British writers, but he never quite made it to 100. In his absence, the centenary... Read More

Like most American sports fans, I find the very low scoring in soccer to be a bit vexing.1 Despite that, I had a ton of fun watching the... Read More

Your daughter’s smile is dearer to you than that of a stranger half a world away. Of course it is. Human life is situated and embodied,... Read More

Like we count our real friends on one hand, I have a very limited number of museums that are truly special, especially good at a focused... Read More

Forget the $10,000 tickets and the travel bans and the fact that the last three World Cups have been hosted in Russia, Qatar, and Donald... Read More

Courtney Williams and Natisha Hiedeman did not necessarily know the extent to which their lives would change last summer when, at the start... Read More

IN FIFTH GRADE, I brought a stack of Nancy Drew books on a camping trip. I read one a day, hauling them on hikes and finishing them by... Read More

It’s around 12:30 a.m. on a Wednesday, and the doors have just opened at Bacara, a new “streamer-first” nightclub on 23rd... Read More

In late June, New York City Ballet returned to Los Angeles for the first time in twenty years and presented two dance programs at the Music... Read More

The Odyssey is a story of a world defined only by memory. If you leave for a distant war and are gone for 20 years, of course you would... Read More

When The Idea Machine came out last fall, Anna Gát invited me to Manhattan for an Interintellect salon to discuss it. Anna’s the... Read More

I feel Pharoah Sanders’s presence all around me at Montreal Jazz Festival. It’s more than just his photo lacquered in... Read More

These days, I feel a kind of paranoid protectiveness about reading, as though it were a pleasure that powerful interests wanted to deny me.... Read More

A recent Persuasion article by Andrea Miotti argues that “We Need an International Treaty to Ban Superintelligence.” His... Read More

In 1957 Stephen Sondheim made his Broadway debut at the age of twenty-seven as a lyricist for West Side Story, a retelling of William... Read More