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New York City has always been the center of the world, but in the last few weeks, the magnifying glass has been on us like never before. The... Read More

The Future of Free Speech by Jacob Mchangama and Jeff Kosseff is an ambitious book written with no little fervour by manifestly... Read More

I was just speculating for a podcast. I had no personal information. I was just speculating for a podcast.” This was the... Read More

The first Englishman to reach the New World brought home chips and fags. Or so we were told: many of us will remember primary-school lessons... Read More

Three months ago, I read Zoe Dubno’s Happiness and Love. And I really adored this novel, which is about a young woman, a writer,... Read More

Writing about writing is almost inescapably boring. But I think the way to make it work is by diving right in. Headfirst, over the edge. So... Read More

Practically every school and university in America claims to teach “critical thinking.” It appears in mission... Read More

Graphic designers and proofreaders—and the businesses and governments they work for—usually succeed at eliminating errors in the... Read More

Is there a living writer more interested in flickering than Ben Lerner? It’s not just that his books flicker between fiction and... Read More

Some risked their lives for their cause. Others wielded influence through mass media. Read More

At the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 – with face masks, gloves, and other basic protections in high demand – Chinese... Read More

When the original 1995 Pixar film, Toy Story, stole the hearts of a generation, the franchise’s true antagonist wasn’t... Read More

I’m sitting on the tailgate of a pickup. Two men are with me. One leans against the bed of the truck; the other stands at the rear... Read More

Imagine a portal you can pass through at will. On the other side, there’s a world that resembles this one in many superficial ways, but... Read More

An uncomfortable element of the recent A.I. short story scandals is the fact that, well, you weren’t... Read More

It all started with an unexpected late-night phone call delivering some much-needed good news. I was coming back from visiting my dad, who... Read More

ASHTON POLITANOFF’S new book is either his first or second novel, depending on whether you classify his debut, You’ll Like... Read More

Near the summit of Volcan Mountain, Janice Bina-Smith sits with a group of us in a circle on crunching oak leaves. The red ants don’t... Read More

Last September, the tennis player Lorenzo Musetti, then ranked No. 10 in the world, walked into Arthur Ashe Stadium for his U.S. Open... Read More

Last week I watched two movies that got me thinking about things I’ve been mulling for some time now: Authenticity and tech... Read More

For America’s bicentennial in 1976, Coca-Cola ran a TV spot that nobody would dream of airing today. The ad is a... Read More

In Book XIII of the Odyssey, which is both the most familiar and the strangest of great epics, Odysseus comes home at last. After ten... Read More

THE TIDE HAS TURNED. For half a century, the Supreme Court was on the side of sexual liberation. In case after case, the court established a... Read More