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Jay McInerney’s latest novel, See You on the Other Side, opens—humorously, fittingly—at the Odeon in Manhattan.... Read More

It’s easy to start a fight between David Bowie fans: Simply ask them to name his best album. Thanks to Bowie’s rare combination... Read More

There’s a meme, of sorts, that pops up on Twitter from time to time: why don’t we build beautiful buildings anymore? The... Read More

The first thing Deep Throat says in this film is worth remembering: “Forget the myths that the media has created about the White House.... Read More

Most of us agree, at least in principle, that a stronger commitment to free speech on our campuses and in public life would be a welcome... Read More

Authenticity, performance, the thin line between fact and fiction: these are, by now, the well-known central preoccupations of Ben... Read More

I hadn’t thought of Robert Frost as a poet of midlife.  Read More

From the earliest days I can and cannot recall, my existence was something of a petri dish: eating raw butter, speaking with a lisp, and... Read More

Films don’t come much more self-consciously provocative than Norwegian writer-director Kristoffer Borgli’s The Drama. It’s... Read More

“I look for you,” writes Solomon ibn Gabirol in eleventh century Spain. “I don’t know how to look for You,”... Read More

Would you fuck Ben Lerner? Or perhaps "Adam," the autofictional protagonist of Leaving the Atocha Station and The Topeka... Read More

By now, the argument has a bleak familiarity: Conservatives lack the toolkit to make good art, and all too often they lack the perception to... Read More

Here are works on and of the West, including The Oracle’s Daughter, Brand New Beat, and Questions 27 and 28 that we’re excited to... Read More

Ibram X. Kendi has been relatively quiet since 2025, when his Center for Antiracist Research at Boston University closed its doors. The... Read More

What are the functions of the genuine literary critic? Some claim that the critic serves no purpose: He or she merely gets in the way of the... Read More

1.How did you start your current gig as Senior Editor of Playboy? What’s it been like so far? When Playboy first... Read More

The beating heart of Raleigh—the cornerstone on which the city’s foundation was laid and the central point by which its grid is... Read More

Louis Theroux is very good at something most journalists are not: making his subjects comfortable enough to reveal themselves.  Read More

Younger Americans, born after 1985, may have no frame of reference for the current state of journalism which is highly partisan and... Read More

In 1999, former Playboy editor Murray Fisher traveled to the East Coast to speak with the legendary American poet Maya Angelou. Their... Read More

Last week, a plush London hotel became a temple to HBO Max. Pictures of Carrie Bradshaw lined the corridors, HBO Max cushions... Read More

In St. Louis, baseball has always been serious. But for Jan Daniels, it’s practically divine. “Opening Day,” says the 88... Read More

For Ben Lerner, panic obtains. In his first novel, Leaving the Atocha Station (2011), Lerner’s stand-in, Adam Gordon, talks... Read More

Louis Theroux’s job used to be a lot easier. The British-American documentarian made a career with offbeat TV series, specials, and... Read More

On March 30, The Guardian reported on a US State Department cable that directed embassies and consulates worldwide to... Read More

The Dan Hurley era at the University of Connecticut was first announced in March 2018, but it officially started with a win over Syracuse in... Read More

Back in the year 1998, there was a thirteen-year-old boy who loved to read. This boy lived in Washington, DC, and every week he would get... Read More

At the moment, AI seems to be making incursions on everyday life almost every day. While some people embrace AI, often depicted as “the... Read More

Roald Dahl’s chocolate river was the economic policy of my childhood. Dripping with glossy abundance, and available to any enterprising... Read More

On a Wednesday evening last November, the staff of The New Yorker gathered at a marble bar in Tribeca to celebrate the retirement of a... Read More

I HATED WASHING the dishes as a child. I was not tidy. My handwriting was chaotic, moving in and out of cursive. Legible only to me,... Read More

Eva Longoria thought she knew France pretty well. The actress and producer has been traveling to the country regularly for more than two... Read More

Iwas 10 when Frank Lloyd Wright first entered my consciousness. I was sitting crosslegged on the beige carpet of my bedroom in a tract house... Read More