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María Jesús Contreras Beware the Luxury Beach Resort
These ostensible paradises have a dark side.
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Oliver Munday The Book That Never Stops Changing
What I’ve learned about Dublin, and myself, in a lifetime of reading Ulysses
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Jamiel Law White Author, Black Paragons
When writing across cultural divides flattens characters
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Pablo Delcan and Río Delcan La Rocca Why Is Dad So Mad?
A father dares to explore his rage.
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Nadav Kander / Trunk Archive The Defiant Strangeness of Werner Herzog
The director brings his signature theme—adventurers who share his quixotic compulsions—to his debut novel.
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Pamela Guest Tracy Flick vs. Toxic Masculinity
Tom Perrotta reassesses his ’90s antihero.
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Natalya Balnova How Primate Research Was Hijacked by Sexist Ideologues
The shared history of apes and humans has long been put to political use.
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Dadu Shin Sex for Art’s Sake
Elif Batuman’s curious experiment in fiction
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Rodrigo Corral The Price of Privacy
Who gets to keep a secret in a hyperconnected world?
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Illustration by John Whitlock* A New History of World War II
A new book argues that the conflict was a battle for empire.
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TJ Rinoski The Goon Squad Gets Old
Do Jennifer Egan’s tricks still work?
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Photo illustration by Alicia Tatone. Sources: Archive Photos … Ireland’s Great Gamble
The country wanted modern prosperity and traditional values. It could only have one.
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Oliver Munday The Story of Jack and Neal
The friendship that made On the Road—and the Beat Generation—possible
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Jan Robert Dünnweller What Joe Biden Can Learn From Harry Truman
His approval rating hit historic lows, his party was fractious, crises were everywhere. But Truman rescued his presidency, and his legacy.
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Dan Winters America’s Love-Hate Relationship With the Bald Eagle
Revered as a national symbol, reviled as an actual bird
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Linda Merad The Smutty Mystic
What everyone gets wrong about Sheila Heti’s fiction
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Daniele Castellano The Madness of Method Acting
Does acting need to be grueling to be good?
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Illustration by Soomyeong Kim Fiction Meets Chaos Theory
Hanya Yanagihara’s new novel tweaks American history and traces the disorienting consequences.
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Illustration by Paul Spella. Sources: Chris Hellier / … Rewriting the Book of Genesis
Cast into political exile, and into darkness by his failing eyesight, John Milton was determined to accomplish “things unattempted yet in prose or rhyme.”
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Michael George Haddad Beware Prophecies of Civil War
The idea that such a catastrophe is unavoidable in America is inflammatory and corrosive.
