• News and Culture

    Keen On

    Anand Varma on the World’s Invisible Wonders

    By Keen On  October 31, 2023
    Book Covers

    The 14 Best Book Covers of October

    By Emily Temple  October 30, 2023
    Espionage

    Spying is Lying: How David Cornwell Became John Le Carré

    By Adam Sisman  October 30, 2023
    AI

    Can a Computer Write Like Eudora Welty?

    By Randy Sparkman  October 30, 2023
    The Sea

    The Shape of Water: How the Movement of Oceans Impacts Human Activity

    By Helen Czerski  October 30, 2023
    The History of Literature

    America’s First Man of Letters: Washington Irving

    By History of Literature  October 30, 2023
    Emergence Magazine

    Anna Badkhen on Imprints of the Past

    By Emergence Magazine  October 30, 2023
    The Hub

    Join the thousands of writers who have signed this letter for Gaza.

    By Dan Sheehan  October 27, 2023
    Women in Science

    The Past and Present of Writing Women Out of Scientific History

    By Jan Eliasberg  October 27, 2023
    Film and TV

    The Holdovers is a Revelation

    By Olivia Rutigliano  October 27, 2023
    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
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