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Finn, a sixth grader, stood up. It was his turn to present his start-up: a streetwear brand named “22.” Pacing around the front... Read More

Marcello Hernández has invented a new game. On a sunny yet deceivingly cold spring day, the 28-year-old comedian and Saturday Night... Read More

On May 8, Pentagon officials began releasing previously classified material related to unidentified flying objects. The UFO files may not... Read More

At a time when readers and writers alike lament the diminished ambition and cultural place of American fiction, here come two new novels... Read More

STEVE KERR WALKED into the lobby of the Beverly Wilshire with a secret. Win or lose, he'd decided to retire as head coach of the Golden State... Read More

Bruce Springsteen—man, myth, rock demigod—materializes at a mic as if beamed to it from beyond the clouds, drawing thunderous... Read More

Growing up in Amritsar, India, food was never just cooked; it was offered. My grandmother stirred pots at dawn with instinct and... Read More

Last week, I had the great pleasure of welcoming to Atlanta Jacob Mchangama, who came to talk to me about his book. We had a... Read More

Ron Rosenbaum’s latest book, Bob Dylan: Things Have Changed, is not a biography. It is instead a “kind of... Read More

If you’ve never heard a pack of coyotes shrieking in the middle of the night and want to know what it sounds like, imagine a group of... Read More

To live in Guayaquil, Ecuador is to be at the mercy of the tectonic plates under your feet. Nicole and Noa, the young women at the heart of... Read More

Amid a stretch of red-brick buildings, the Brooklyn restaurant Margot, right at the corner on a busy intersection, stands out. It’s... Read More

The great Christian apologist and literary critic C.S. Lewis provides a surprising amount of moral and political wisdom despite not being a... Read More

Prometheus might have handed humanity fire, but he certainly did not give us a smartphone. Digital technology is not God-given. Nor is... Read More

I’ve been looking into the literacy crisis, and I think I now understand it. These days young people are either making videos about how... Read More

Truth, the saying goes, is stranger than fiction. Not so the fictions of Joy Williams, which are precisely strange enough to capture the... Read More

From the moment Beth Dutton (Kelly Reilly) looks over the Montana landscape to sigh, “Did you ever imagine we could have this? This... Read More

Matthew McConaughey sat before a roomful of aspiring young actors and filmmakers this February at his alma mater, the University of Texas at... Read More

Richard Holmes’s new biography, The Boundless Deep, depicts how Alfred Lord Tennyson absorbed the scientific discoveries of his era,... Read More

Christina and Eric Schwendeman’s travels had them bouncing around Asia for several months early last year. In the spring, the American... Read More

Rob Doyle’s Cameo has a distinctly “postmodern” resonance that seems almost archaic in the present moment. Three decades... Read More

I went out one afternoon to where the Grateful Dead rehearse, behind Bob’s Floating Homes on the Sausalito waterfront. (CORRECTION: Don... Read More

This past weekend, I reviewed the first half of the Met’s Raphael: Sublime Poetry, ending with some of his portraits, among them his... Read More

“It is not good for man to be alone.” This is the only time in pre-Fall Eden when God calls some part of his creation anything... Read More

Ben Lerner once described Gerald Murnane’s The Plains (1982) as a ‘bizarre masterpiece that can feel less like something... Read More

I love a novel that tells you why it was written, a novel that has a bit of backstage to it. It’s like sitting at the edge of a row of... Read More

Earlier this month, the New Yorker published a mesmerizing if bleak article about the “Disney adult” — that distinct... Read More

I have not run into them so often lately, but Lawrence Durrell’s Alexandria Quartet and its constituent novels (Justine, Balthazar,... Read More

Netflix's splashy take on Lord of the Flies has renewed interest in the tale, which follows a group of British boys descending into savagery... Read More

The newspaper where Andy accepts a job at the end of The Devil Wears Prada is called ‘The New York Mirror’. The importance of... Read More

Douglas Stuart, author of the Booker Prize-winning Shuggie Bain, is becoming a problem. With the publication of his third novel, John of... Read More

Andrew David Edwards, in Money and the Making of the American Revolution, offers what his publisher describes as “a new interpretation... Read More

Last fall, I went to visit a friend in Lima, Peru, a city where ethnic ambiguity and occasional Asianness are part and parcel of daily life.... Read More

AN ODD THING HAS HAPPENED every time I’ve been in a theater where the trailer for The Sheep Detectives has played. At first, there is a... Read More