Christine Smallwood on being the younger child, the loneliness of contemporary fiction, and feminist psychoanalysis ...

It was reported that a newly instated top official at FEMA’s Office of Response and Recovery claimed that he once teleported 50 miles to a Waffle House in Rome, Georgia. In Rome, Italy, the remains of ...

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In 1973, when Barry Singer was a fifteen-year-old student at New York’s Yeshiva University High School for Boys, the vice principal, Rabbi George Finkelstein, stopped him in a stairwell. Claiming he ...

On a hot day last June, near the shores of Lake Suwa, in the mountains of central Japan, hundreds of spectators gathered around an earthen stage roughly two feet high and two dozen feet wide. The ...

From Le journal d’un prisonnier, a memoir by the former French president Nicolas Sarkozy recounting the twenty days he spent incarcerated last year on corruption charges, which was published in… ...

From letters that appeared in the Linewaiters’ Gazette, a newsletter published by the Park Slope Food Coop, a member-owned-and-operated grocery store in Brooklyn, New York, since 2023. Dear Coop, I… ...

A Treacherous Secret Agent was published in March by Yale University Press. It was way back in August 2024—before the presidential election—that Donald Trump decided to describe his meandering ...

I used to work for a publisher that accepted unsolicited submissions. Our guidelines, apparently unrevised since the advent of the internet, required authors to mail their manuscripts in hard copy… ...

“Why do you think it’s funny?” I asked. “Well, funny the way music can be funny, I suppose,” he replied. “Music is funny?” “Not all music, Sam. But a scherzo… ...

EXT. 8TH STREET—LATE AFTERNOON (C. 1959). CAMERA IN NONSTOP MOTION is on the shoulder of a young man, late teens, intently walking west on a busy Greenwich Village thoroughfare. Under one arm, he’s ...

Writing about “Woke” has at least two pitfalls. One is that any criticism of its excesses provokes accusations of racism, xenophobia, transphobia, misogyny, or white supremacy. The other problem is ...