• News and Culture

    What to Watch

    50 Years Later, Terrence Malick’s Badlands Remains a Pure Encapsulation of American Violence

    By Gus Mitchell  October 27, 2023
    What to Watch

    Evan Hughes on Writing the Book Behind Pain Hustlers

    By Evan Hughes  October 27, 2023
    What to Watch

    Goosebumps Remixes Its Source Material to Satisfying Results

    By Michael Kraus  October 27, 2023
    Cundill History Prize

    How the Cultural Revolution Played Society Against Itself

    By Tania Branigan  October 27, 2023
    Baillie Gifford Prize

    The Transcendental Genius of George Balanchine’s Ballet

    By Jennifer Homans  October 27, 2023
    Keen On

    Sandra Newman on Writing Another View of 1984

    By Keen On  October 27, 2023
    Keen On

    David Leonhardt on the Decline of the American Dream

    By Keen On  October 27, 2023
    What to Watch

    The Literary Film & TV You Need to Stream in November

    By Emily Temple  October 27, 2023
    Music history

    The Beatles Adventures in the Red-Light District: On George Harrison’s First Time

    By Philip Norman  October 26, 2023
    Representation

    Romance and Representation: On the Rise of the Asian American Romantic Comedy

    By Jeff Yang  October 26, 2023
    Puerto Rican Literature

    On Puerto Rican Literature and “Abyssal Exclusion”

    By Claudia Acevedo-Quiñones  October 26, 2023
    What to Watch

    Holly Ringland on the Life-Affirming Experience of Seeing Her Novel Adapted for TV

    By Holly Ringland  October 26, 2023
    Keen On

    M.R. O’Connor on the Regenerative Power of Fire

    By Keen On  October 26, 2023
    Graphic Memoir

    Roz Chast, Like All of Us, Has Recurring Dreams

    By Roz Chast  October 25, 2023
    Drinking

    Dwight Garner on the Long History of Writers and America’s Greatest Invention, the Martini

    By Dwight Garner  October 25, 2023
    Drugs

    Panacea or Problematic Hype?: The Uncertain Promises of Ketamine Therapy

    By Andy Mitchell  October 25, 2023
    Reading List

    Enough “How-To” Books: It’s Time For More “How-Come”

    By Jessica Elefante  October 25, 2023
    Fascism

    What Does “Fascist” Actually Mean?

    By Alberto Toscano  October 25, 2023
    Keen On

    Alexander Sammen on the Sordid History of the Avocado

    By Keen On  October 25, 2023
    The Hub

    Read the last words of writer Heba Abu Nada, who was killed last week by an Israeli airstrike.

    By Dan Sheehan  October 24, 2023
    Bob Dylan

    How Bob Dylan Blurred the Boundaries Between Literature and Popular Music

    By Lucy Sante  October 24, 2023
    Excerpt

    Why Toni Morrison Left Publishing

    By Dan Sinykin  October 24, 2023
    Mushrooms

    Instead of Writing, Margaret Renkl Forages for Fungi

    By Margaret Renkl  October 24, 2023
    Aliens?

    UFO or UF-No: What Would Take for Aliens to Visit Our Solar System?

    By Adam Frank  October 24, 2023
    Keen On

    Richard Rhodes on E.O. Wilson and Nature

    By Keen On  October 24, 2023
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