Jen Percy on Self-Preservation, Playing Dead, and Writing About Gendered Violence

Jen Percy on Self-Preservation, Playing Dead, and Writing About Gendered Violence

Sarah Viren Talks to the author of Girls Play Dead: Acts of Self-Preservation

By Sarah Viren | November 11, 2025

Maybe Don’t Talk to the <em>New York Times</em> About Zohran Mamdani

Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani

The Former Chair of Africana Studies at Bowdoin College
Would Prefer Not To 

By Peter Coviello | November 7, 2025

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

“I seemed to be reading a 1970s-Laurel Canyon version of My Brilliant Friend.”

By Book Marks | November 6, 2025

What Donald Trump’s Isolationism Means For America—and the World

What Donald Trump’s Isolationism Means For America—and the World

Michael McFaul on the Challenges Facing the Liberal International Order From Outside and From Within

By Michael McFaul | November 5, 2025

How Two Nuns and a Jesuit Might Persuade You to Finally Download that Dating App

How Two Nuns and a Jesuit Might Persuade You to Finally Download that Dating App

Ana Garriga and Carmen Urbita on the “Close Friendship” Between 16th-Century Nun Sor Juana Inés and Vicereine María Luisa

By Ana Garriga and Carmen Urbita | November 4, 2025

Antimemes and Nanobot Beauty Scams: November’s Best Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books

Antimemes and Nanobot Beauty Scams: November’s Best Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books

New Autumnal Reads From Travis Baldree, Claire North, Victor Manibo and More

By Natalie Zutter | November 3, 2025

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

  • The Rest of Our Lives
  • Call Me Ishmaelle
  • This Is Where the Serpent Lives
  • Lost Lambs
  • Winter: The Story of a Season
  • The Score: How to Stop Playing Somebody Else's Game
  • Departure(s)
  • Fly, Wild Swans: My Mother, Myself and China
  • The Flower Bearers
  • Black Dahlia: Murder, Monsters, and Madness in Midcentury Hollywood

Reading Anne Sexton’s Rejected Horror Stories

By Nick Ripatrazone | October 31, 2025

Why Do Countless Cultures Believe the Dead Walk Among Us?

By John Blair | October 31, 2025

Arthur Conan Doyle, Jack the Ripper and the Fact and Fiction of Criminal Profiling

By Rachel Corbett | October 31, 2025

The Literary Film & TV You Need to Stream in November

The Literary Film & TV You Need to Stream in November

Death by Lightning, Train Dreams, and Come See Me in the Good Light

By Emily Temple | October 30, 2025

Guillermo del Toro’s New <em>Frankenstein</em> Adaptation is Life-Giving

Guillermo del Toro’s New Frankenstein Adaptation is Life-Giving

Olivia Rutigliano on the Excellent New Adaptation of Mary Shelley’s Classic Novel

By Olivia Rutigliano | October 29, 2025

Bob Dylan’s Superpower is That He Doesn’t Get Embarrassed

Bob Dylan’s Superpower is That He Doesn’t Get Embarrassed

Ron Rosenbaum on the Icon and the Enigma

By Ron Rosenbaum | October 28, 2025

How FarmVille Inspired a Ponzi Scheme That Swindled $250 Million From Its Investors

How FarmVille Inspired a Ponzi Scheme That Swindled $250 Million From Its Investors

Moisés Naím and Quico Toro on Mehmet Aydın, the Turkish Wannabe-Pop Star Who Created “Farm Bank”

By Moisés Naím and Quico Toro | October 27, 2025

Remembering Writer and <em>New Yorker</em> Mainstay Alison Rose

Remembering Writer and New Yorker Mainstay Alison Rose

Cynthia Zarin on Her Late Friend: “She was like an exclamation point in Garamond type...”

By Cynthia Zarin | October 24, 2025

On the Impromptu Walgreens Concert That Got Evan Dando to Sober Up

On the Impromptu Walgreens Concert That Got Evan Dando to Sober Up

“I’ve been lost and found more times than I can count,
but it was time to make a change.”

By Evan Dando | October 23, 2025

What the Fascist Tech Bros Get Wrong About Prometheus

What the Fascist Tech Bros Get Wrong About Prometheus

James Folta on the Dark Folly of the
American Colossus Foundation

By James Folta | October 22, 2025

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