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Where to begin? At the end. At the close of The Golden Age, the last novel in his long series of American history, Gore Vidal performs a... Read More

If you’re in academia, you’ve probably already heard about the report. In April 2026, a panel of academics from different fields,... Read More

“Get a room. There’s kids around.” The camera advances toward a finely dressed couple kissing in Central Park. They smile,... Read More

People like working from home. It lets us avoid commutes. It lets us live closer to family. It seems especially good for the parents of young... Read More

I held off on seeing The Odyssey. I wasn’t sure why. Maybe I was flinching from the thunder of publicity — crammed with promises... Read More

About three years ago I pulled up stakes and moved to the far side of the world. My reasons for this were so personal and idiosyncratic that... Read More

Among the swelling collection of books confronting our imperiled planet, Claire Vaye Watkins’s fiction remains defiantly alive. Her... Read More

UNLESS YOU’VE EXPERIENCED one, it can be hard to describe what it feels like to be at a mass protest. It becomes even harder to convey... Read More

The summer’s most talked-about novel, the debut Yesteryear by Caro Claire Burke, has a tantalizing premise: a tradwife influencer wakes... Read More

Last December, in a crystalline “polar vortex,” my husband and I drove to Florida after getting married in Ohio. As we drove... Read More

A tall man stands upright in a dimly lit and crowded hall, beating a thick, long staff against the floor in steady rhythmic intervals, his... Read More

The incident involves an old pink and silver ribbon that has gone missing. In The Confessions, this is Rousseau’s central admission of... Read More

“Loved the book, didn’t care for the movie.” A truly good book is not easily compressed into a two- or three-hour format.... Read More

César Aira has published over a hundred works, and this number alone tells you something about his method. He calls it la fuga hacia... Read More

Summer breeze makes me feel fine . . . Anytime I hear that 1972 song by Seals and Crofts, I’m transported. Not to the 1970s—I... Read More

The 2021 blockbuster Spider-Man: No Way Home ushered in a pile-up of villains from the superhero’s past, multiplying the title... Read More

Last things first: Eve Babitz is a major minor L.A. writer who died five years ago at age 78. She spent nearly a quarter-century as a... Read More

Just a couple weeks ago, Secretary of State Marco Rubio made conservatives cheer when he delivered a sharp rebuke to communism not only for... Read More

Do you want to have a good time? You know, really enjoy yourself? Click here, and tell us your desires. Maybe it’s a new outfit, or... Read More

Ben Lerner is a highly-acclaimed man of letters who’s written four novels about the daily life of a highly-acclaimed man of letters. In... Read More

You shouldn’t let things get to you. You shouldn’t be filled with doubt and ambivalence and vague shames. You should be like a... Read More

A remarkable outburst of interest in Western civilization has marked this extraordinary month. We began July with a celebration of... Read More

My mother, back in a less gentle era of parenting, had a characteristic reply to the complaints of bored children, often uttered just before... Read More

Over a thousand people were dying a day in the U.S., and our eyes were still glued to Britney. My wife was scrolling through Instagram at my... Read More

An American producer, a German director, and a French screenwriter are sitting in a screening room watching dailies for a new production of... Read More

Charles Taylor, professor emeritus of philosophy at McGill University, is well known in the field of political theory for works such as... Read More

A massive sinkhole recently opened up on Sunset Boulevard at Holloway Drive, just down the street from the heart of Hollywood itself.... Read More

There’s an interesting contrast going on this summer at the American Film Institute’s Silver Theater outside of Washington, D.C.... Read More

On a recent tour of the U.S. Capitol building—my first since working there nearly 30 years ago—I was reminded of just how... Read More

Something called Eating With Experts pissed off a bunch of food writers the other week when it posted a carousel of text to Instagram... Read More

We had our first taste of pecan pie. Good lord. Do the Americans know how lucky they are to live with these everyday indulgences? Pecan pie... Read More

Christopher Nolan’s $250 million action movie version of Homer’s ancient Greek poem is an entertaining way to hide from the high... Read More

Last year, my editors gave me an assignment: “Rank the greatest superhero movies of all time.” That was it. No restrictions, no... Read More

Patrick Deneen is perhaps best known as a critic of contemporary American politics and culture. His 2018 book Why Liberalism Failed offers... Read More

So far this year, according to TrackingSharks.com, there have been 30 recorded shark attacks worldwide. Seven were fatal. Shark attack... Read More

For someone whose office has a view of a carnival, Lonny Warner is decidedly unwhimsical. The CEO of Reddy Ice, the largest producer of... Read More