‘I’ve Seen Several Giants Die on My Land’
A new anthology about climate change acknowledges that we are both willing participants in and at the mercy of the systems that are destroying us.
How Reality Dating Shows Stoke Racial Tensions
Lauren and Cameron, Love Is Blind’s breakout stars, have succeeded not because of the show but in spite of it.
Want Closer Friendships? Move Away From Your Friends.
Distance, as it turns out, isn’t the barrier to deep relationships that some may think.
Welcome to the Summer of Dancing and Darkness
Beyoncé and Drake are turning to house music to encourage listeners to let loose. But are we ready to submit?
The Most American Form of Architecture Isn’t Going Anywhere
A new book challenges the dominant narrative that malls are dying.
A Substitution
A short story
Saïd Sayrafiezadeh on the Performance of Fiction
“There’s no one the fiction writer can hide behind.”
Beware the Luxury Beach Resort
These ostensible paradises have a dark side.
Chris Hemsworth Finds His Villainous Niche
Spiderhead comes so close to making a classic “good vs. evil” story line feel new again.
The Organization of Your Bookshelves Tells Its Own Story
The complexity of the human heart can be expressed in the arrangement of one’s books.
Perfume Genius Sings the Body Electric
The notion of surrender is at the heart of Mike Hadreas’s carnal and sensual new album, Ugly Season.
The Book That Captures My Life as a Dad
Abbott Awaits makes the everyday aspects of parenting objects of tender observation.
A Lost Trove of Civil War Gold, an FBI Excavation, and Some Very Angry Treasure Hunters
“I’m going to find out what the hell the FBI did and I’m going to expose it to the world.”
It’s Time for Pixar to Move on From Toy Story
Lightyear is the origin story that no one needed.
The Book That Never Stops Changing
What I’ve learned about Dublin, and myself, in a lifetime of reading Ulysses
Barry Isn’t a Comedy Anymore. But It’s Become an Even Better Show.
Season 3 of Bill Hader’s HBO series about a listless hitman, which ended Sunday, marked a stark shift toward the show’s darker impulses.
The Books Swallowed by the Black Hole of the Coronavirus
Some spectacular titles had the terrible luck of being released in early 2020. They still deserve our attention.
TikTok Killed the Video Star
MTV turned music into spectacle. The app is doing the opposite.
The Problem of English Identity
And the play that lays bare Britain’s constructed myths
Minority Report Tried to Warn Us About Technology
Steven Spielberg’s film predicted how having more convenience would mean sacrificing personal freedom.