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Fiction by Anne Carson: Afterward, talking of that night, she can’t remember how she found her way, with the darkness…
Anne Carson’s Ecstatic Minimalism
Merve Emre on the writer Anne Carson, who has been awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for 2026.
The Dumocrats Are Coming for Trump, and All He Can Do Is Call Them Names
Susan B. Glasser reports from the campaign trail in Texas, Oklahoma, Alabama, Ohio, and Nebraska, as President Trump stumps for…
How Test Engineers Decide What Counts as Good Enough
Gideon Lewis-Kraus reviews “Kobuk the Destroyer, and Other Tales from the Wild, Unseen World of Test Engineering,” by Alex Davies.
How the Billions from the Opioid Settlement Are Being Spent
Oliver Whang reports on how money from the opioid settlement is being spent. Some of the money, which is difficult…
Why Is Illness So Hard to Write About?
Hermione Hoby on “On Being Ill,” by Virginia Woolf, and how, a century after Woolf posed the question, writers like…
“Degenerates” Is Funny, Pervy, and Startling
Else Went’s new play dares to display some empathy for the troubled denizens of the manosphere, Emily Nussbaum writes.
Will Netanyahu Escape His Reckoning?
David Remnick writes about Israel three years after the attacks of October 7th, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s military campaigns since,…
“The Social Reckoning” Leaves Out the Human Element
Richard Brody reviews “The Social Reckoning,” the sequel to “The Social Network,” written and directed by Aaron Sorkin and starring…
Back to School, in Gaza
Mosab Abu Toha writes about his and his family’s schools in Gaza, the use of tents as makeshift schools, and…