Practicing Shopping-Cart Meditation
An illustrated Shouts by Natalie Waksman, on using online shopping carts as self-care.
July 2026
admin “Birthright” and “Giant” Tackle Jewish Identity
Emily Nussbaum reviews the plays, which explore interpersonal rifts over Israel. Only one of them lets the ugliness linger.
Éric Rohmer’s Novel “Élisabeth” Is a Precocious Literary Triumph
Before he had any interest in movies, Rohmer was a writer, and his 1946 début is a fine-grained vision of…
Broken
Flash Fiction by Rabih Alameddine: Usually, when I informed a guy that I had a type, that I couldn’t help…
How New York Watched the World Cup
Edward Steed illustrates scenes from the city where people gathered to follow the the tournament.
Trump and NATO Court Erdoğan, Turkey’s Strongman
Ishaan Tharoor writes about Donald Trump’s relationship with the Turkish President, and about what it portends for Turkey’s role in…
An Inconvenient Moment for an Extreme Global Heat Wave
Heat waves across the world have brought record-high temperatures so far this summer. Will this rapid warming finally get politicians…
The Unlikely Journalist Who Looked Into the Heart of War
“From the Front Line,” a new collection of Vasily Grossman’s war reporting, helps us see how he changed the genre.…
The Rise of the “As Seen on TikTok” Sticker
Brady Brickner-Wood writes on TikTok’s book-review videos, known collectively as BookTok, and what it means for literature.
What Scientists Learned by Eavesdropping on Thousands of People
After researchers discovered that we’re speaking less and less each year, Shayla Love spent a week collecting audio recordings from…