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One day in 2023, a security expert named Reg Walker was keeping watch over an invite-only chat room whose members employ high-tech methods of... Read More

George Saunders has spent a career unpacking one of the central contradictions of life: that we are loving creatures capable of creating... Read More

In December, bestselling author and humorist David Sedaris wrote a New Yorker magazine essay about a recent trip to Portland, Oregon.... Read More

CAMILLE BORDAS IS an expert chronicler of misfits. Her first English-language novel, How to Behave in a Crowd (2017), was narrated... Read More

A key piece of covering the N.F.L.’s quarterly league meetings, as I have for a dozen years as a sportswriter for The New York... Read More

On the use of personal experience in writing: but these fragments of the real should be relativized within a larger whole, as a method... Read More

There are two methods to the DoorDash handoff. One: You use your phone to guide your deliverer through twisty hallways like a CIA asset on a... Read More

Lots of juicy art news in the new year, so let’s peek into the glass hive. I’ve written off and on about the drive to... Read More

Hello readers, I’m deep into drafting two long craft posts—part two of my “principles of plotting”... Read More

I like Sam Raimi’s verve as a genre movie director. He demonstrates it in Send Help with the same enthusiasm for wild action and... Read More

Walk the streets of any major metropolitan area and pay attention to what is communicated in the public sphere. Look especially at... Read More

The largest event on the American sports calendar is once again about to take place, but with an interesting twist this year.... Read More

Review: Beyond Steel: Pittsburgh and the Economics of Transformation by Christopher P. Briem (The Kent State University Press,... Read More

It’s Josh D’Amaro’s Disney now, or it will be soon, anyway. The freshly named CEO undoubtedly knows his transition to power... Read More

“You’re seriously asking for my view on The English Patient?!” the late author David Foster Wallace squirms, midway through... Read More

Like many others, I watched and enjoyed the Netflix documentary Miracle: The Boys of ’80 over the weekend, a film about the life and... Read More

In the mid-1990s, when I was in middle school and the film critic A.S. Hamrah was, I presume, about a decade out of college, ABC and FOX ran... Read More

One of the more interesting questions about Jewish culture after October 7 is: What will the future of American Jewish fiction look like? It... Read More

Persecuted Christians. Youth sports. Foster-care programs. Cancer prevention. Military and veteran support. Giving juveniles a second... Read More

Over the past two decades, A.S. Hamrah has carved out a peculiar niche for himself in the increasingly bowdlerized world of American film... Read More

Walk the rows of the farmers market in a small, nondescript Texas town about an hour away from Austin, and you might stumble across something... Read More

“I’m glad that I haven’t had the success that people had hoped for me until now,” Madison Beer candidly admits in the... Read More

In the ’80s, the ultimate healthy Boomer breakfast was a bran muffin. There were also various cereals like Grape-Nuts and Raisin Bran.... Read More

Recently, a female skier in China was rescued from a mountaintop after being seriously injured in an attack by a snow leopard. But... Read More