In November, 2024, on the day of the U.S. Presidential election, Tim Whitmarsh landed in Beijing, jet-lagged and disoriented. It was the middle of the academic term at the University of Cambridge, where Whitmarsh holds the Regius Professorship in Greek. He…

Since 1979, Iran’s revolutionary regime has been the nemesis of eight American Presidents. None could tame its political furies; its covert operations, which killed more than a thousand Americans in Lebanon, Iraq, and Afghanistan; or its expansion, through…

It is late August, at the time of day when the air in New Orleans is heavy, hard to take in and harder to let out. You press through your jog, feeling as though there’s a cloud in your chest. You run to clear your mind and to keep your perimenopausal ass…

In your story “The City Is a Graveyard,” a woman in her forties goes for a run in New Orleans in August, and sees a man she instinctively believes is a child she miscarried years before. How did this idea come to you? The French Quarter is a place that always…

Some people now have an A.I. bestie. Some have a husband. Some have three.

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Classes were cancelled one recent morning at Brooklyn Science and Engineering Academy, in East Flatbush, so that everyone could attend the middle-school spelling bee. As a few hundred kids squirmed in their seats in the auditorium, a parent coördinator put…

In the fall of 2019, Kashaye Traylor decided to buy a car. She was thirty years old, living in Rochester, New York, and raising a young son on her own. She worked full time at a nursing home and went to school in her off-hours, studying to earn a practical…

On the afternoon of Friday, February 27th, as Donald Trump was flying to Corpus Christi, Texas, to deliver a speech on energy, he signed an order authorizing Operation Epic Fury, the military assault on Iran that is now in its second week. At 2:30 A.M. the…

What is the sound of a needle entering fabric? Something more significant, it seems, than the sound of one hand clapping. You hear a tiny pop followed by the rustle of violated muslin—a shudder in the silence of the universe. Scrupulous directors make sure…

Around noon one recent Sunday, behind the wheel of a rented S.U.V. in dire need of snow tires, I barrelled down an icy dirt road in West Glover, Vermont, eyes peeled for a scrap of cardboard. I was on my way to meet Howie Cantor, one half of the couple behind…

Mark Rosenblatt’s début play brings light, shadow, and humor to its portrait of a troubled writer.

This past October, Vivek Ramaswamy, the biotech mogul now running for governor of Ohio, appeared in Montana at an event hosted by Turning Point USA. After speaking for twenty minutes, he fielded questions from more than a dozen students. Some were about his…

“The carbon atom has six electrons / that move faster than bodies move / from one form to another.”

“From my upstairs-bedroom window, I used to ponder / its sagging timber shoulders and open gable roof.”

​When clock radios, film cameras, and the Yellow Pages ruled the world.

It’s hardly going out on a limb to predict that Paul Thomas Anderson’s “One Battle After Another” and Ryan Coogler’s “Sinners,” the two most passionately acclaimed and culturally significant American movies of 2025, will divide most of the spoils when the…

A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings.

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