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Substack Fam, it’s been a minute. A bit over a month, to be exact, which will be the new cadence around here—just so you... Read More

All children find themselves living in a new world papered with strange hieroglyphics. Most of the time, they must wait to be enrolled in an... Read More

The meta topic sitting beneath the surface of Daniel Miller’s sprawling essay on revolution is a study on the nature of... Read More

On a recent tour of British bookshops, the American author Percival Everett visited Bath. He spent some time signing copies of his most... Read More

Jessi Jezewska Stevens’s fiction wryly examines the vagaries of living in an age of downward mobility and phone-based anomie—with... Read More

Robert Frost first joined literary society when he gatecrashed a bookshop party in the winter of 1913. Frost had no invitation. He was a... Read More

Before the subjects of The Rebels became famous, the Democratic Party sold out. It is a long, sad and tawdry story that Joshua Green tells of... Read More

Kings, presidents, and corporate titans may not undergo Shakespeare’s seven parts in their careers. But all rise to power, exercise it,... Read More

At a meeting of a prominent theosophical society held in the early years of the twentieth century, Theodore Burne Bramble delivered a lecture... Read More

My first thought was of Yeats, for whom the “dragon” is not beauty (as John Pistelli glosses the title of the... Read More

Among last year’s cavalcade of Big Ideas movies, Alexander Payne’s quiet period dramedy “The Holdovers” was, I think,... Read More

The tennis match that begins, ends, and provides the central narrative framework for Challengers, the vibrant new film from director Luca... Read More

TikTok could be “harming vulnerable Americans” or exposing our democracy to “covert foreign... Read More

At the BNP Paribas Open in Indian Wells, Calif., maybe the most prestigious nonmajor tournament on the global tennis tour, players conduct... Read More

Risky Business, the classic 1983 film starring Tom Cruise, will be re-released in June as part of the prestigious Criterion... Read More

There is probably no more respected or prominent compassionate social critic of millennials and Gen Z than Dr. Jonathan Haidt. Since his... Read More

DAVID ROONEY: We’re nearing the middle of one of the most contentious election years in America’s history, with bitter... Read More

Bitter Water Opera, the debut novel by the American writer Nicolette Polek, begins with the invocation of a muse. Gia, the narrator, is... Read More

Over the past two centuries, women have sought and attained equal social, legal, and political status. Detractors have opposed these... Read More

It was just after 3 am on a Saturday night in South Philadelphia, and I was watching an angry inflatable chicken fight a Japanese otter... Read More

Frederick Douglass described in his famous memoir how, when his master discovered his wife teaching their young slave Frederick to read, he... Read More

“There are different categories of fancy Mexican,” says one character in Nicolás Medina Mora’s debut novel,... Read More

“Growing up precocious sometimes means not growing up at all,” Taylor Swift sings on “But Daddy I Love Him.”... Read More

My new book, Reboot, is a fundamentally unserious novel that takes a few things far too seriously. Depending how you reckon, writing it... Read More

Think back to the United States as it was a year ago, a decade ago, a generation ago. Is the US a more caring or less caring nation now than... Read More

Allow me to impart some important life advice: Do not divorce, or allow yourself to be divorced by, a memoirist. Regardless of what a marital... Read More

Maybe you started running for fitness, or because it seemed like a good way to make friends. Or perhaps it was a distraction from an... Read More

The Scottish astrologer James Bassantin, born during the reign of James IV, was what we would now term a hustler. He believed himself of... Read More

As Donald Trump endures the eternity of the next month or so on a wooden bench in a courtroom in lower Manhattan, legions of his followers... Read More