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The artists are at a dinner party gossiping about a dead woman. They say it was an overdose. Her mother doubts whether it was a suicide, but... Read More

Recently, I’ve come across the same — deeply depressing — idea from several different directions. The idea is that the... Read More

A clever device invented to end a war. Destruction of the sacred and violence against the innocent. Mayhem. Pillage. Atrocity. Embers and... Read More

One of the great pleasures of reading widely as a writer is building a personal canon. It can be a hell of a lot of fun to find books out... Read More

On July 16th, I walked through the Upper East Side under apocalypse-orange skies covered in smog – “Odyssean weather”,... Read More

This week, I caved to the advice of my best friend, who, in the spirit of self-help, has long recommended I get a tarot card reading from a... Read More

The mystery of social media algorithms spews videos and reels hyping dysfunction in a (seemingly) not-small segment of Black America, a locus... Read More

IN 1954, SWEDISH WRITER Birgitta Trotzig, aged 25, arrived in Paris just as the Algerian Revolution was igniting. Bored with neutral... Read More

Wednesday evening. It’s time to go to the pub! My girlfriend is unsure. Why? She’s heavily pregnant. She finds the pub... Read More

That Christopher Nolan would hit a home run with “The Odyssey” was as predictable as Odysseus’s return to Ithaca.... Read More

Taking aim at the Boomer generation is becoming a popular pastime—especially on the populist right. While members of younger... Read More

Last week, Sony—the largest video game company in the world—announced that it will no longer produce physical discs for any new... Read More

"I don't know if you're a detective or a pervert," says Sandy Williams, an innocent blonde high schooler, to Jeffrey Beaumont, her handsome... Read More

Hot peptide summer is nigh. In a two day-long marathon hearing that pitted career regulatory representatives against figures of the peptide... Read More

Every now and again, I write about sports. But I only end up showing how out-of-touch I am. Read More

The writer Jacob Bacharach has a funny running bit about how none of the defenders of Western civilization has never encountered it, which he... Read More

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