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America's Future is at Sea
The nation is ceding the seas to its enemies. It's not too late to avoid catastrophe.
"Two of Every Race"
A family's impossible quest to erase prejudice through transracial adoption
"We Belong Here"
In 1991, the family landed at a refugee camp in Saudi Arabia. There, Al-Badry got his first camera, a Pentax K1000.
We're Already in the Metaverse
Reality is blurred. Boredom is intolerable. And everything is entertainment.
A New Way to Read Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald never explicitly states Jay Gatsby's race.
Second Life
During Donnie's first week in the mixed unit (drugs and crazy), a girl threw a TV set out the window because she thought it was criticizing her. Donnie walked to the window to look. \"Probably was,\" he mumbled.
Love Annihilated
The Irish writer Sebastian Barry's great subject
The Scandalous, Clueless, Irresistible Oscars
How the Academy holds on to its prestige despite a history of embarrassment
We're All Invited to the Lighthouse
On the Isle of Skye with Virginia Woolf and my mom
In Their Feelings
The indelible, indomitable voices of Miley Cyrus and Lana Del Rey
Judy Blume Goes All the Way
A new generation discovers the poet laureate of puberty.
Arnold's Last Act
What happens when the Terminator turns 75
The French Are in a Panic Over Le Wokisme
The nation's vehement rejection of identity politics made me recalibrate my own views about woke ideology.
The Third Law of Magic
He spent the night making snow. He packed it tightly into balls of different sizes and stored them in the freezer to keep them stable.
The Masterpiece No One Wanted to Save
Censored and then forgotten, Anatoly Kuznetsov's Babi Yar, about the Nazi occupation of Kyiv, is again painfully relevant.
Did George Washington Burn New York?
Americans disparaged the British as arsonists. But the rebels fought with fire too.
The Miraculous Salman Rushdie
His enchanting new novel is a triumph.
Struck on One Side
Society tells me to celebrate my disability. What if I don't want to?
IS AMERICA READY FOR A NEW AGE OF NUCLEAR POWER?
THERE'S NO WAY TO MITIGATE CLIMATE CHANGE WITHOUT IT.
The Short King's
A maverick group of short sellers uses covert techniques to uncover fraud for profit. Now they're under investigation themselves. Are they the heroes of Wall Street, or the villains?
PARTY OF TROLLS
Republicans need to stop being so obnoxious.
Why Read Literary Biography?
What Shirley Hazzard’ life can, and can't, tell us about her fiction
Cormac McCarthy Has Never Been Better
His two new novels are the pinnacle of a controversial career.
White Noise Used to Be Satire
What was once mildly absurd is now funny because its true.
Can a Building Be Too Tall?
The rise and rise and rise of the supertall skyscraper
The End of Us
Is the reign of human beings on Earth nearing its end? A disparate group of thinkers says yes-and that we should welcome our demise.
The Prophecy of The Waste Land
One hundred years after the publication of LT. S. Eliot's masterwork, its vision has never been more terrifying.
The Reinvention of the Catholic Church
Scandals have taken a toll, and faith is flagging in Europe and the U.S. But Catholicism isnt on the wane—it’s changing in influential ways.
THE EUREKA THEORY OF HISTORY IS WRONG
THE REAL REASON AMERICAN PROGRESS HAS STALLED
SEEING EARTH FROM SPACE WILL CHANGE YOU
The question is how.