admin Can A.I. Produce Writing That We Actually Want to Read?
Jay Caspian Kay writes that he recently created a simple test, which convinced him that the answer is no.
The Heretical Energy of “Is God Is”
Doreen St. Félix considers the playwright Aleshea Harris’s directorial début, an adaptation of her play of the same name, comparing…
The World Cup According to Gianni Infantino
FIFA’s powerful president is remaking global soccer in his own image, Sam Knight writes. Can the sport survive him?
The Happy Ending Romeo and Juliet Didn’t Get
This year’s Shakespeare in the Park production puts the star-crossed lovers on the U.S.-Mexico border. And there’s another twist—each performance…
Leo Woodall Gets a Tune Up
The “White Lotus” actor plays a piano technician in his new movie, “Tuner.” At a real tuning session, in midtown,…
Dusty Baker Plays the Long Game
In his lifetime, the M.L.B. manager has won multiple World Series, shared a joint with Jimi Hendrix, and co-invented the…
Love Omen
Miriam Toews, the author of “Women Talking,” remembers a year in her twenties when, broke, with two young children and…
The Antagonist
Han Ong, the author of the novel “Fixer Chao,” cut ties with his family when he was twenty. Almost thirty…
Forward Into Foreignness
That’s how we did things in my family—tabbouleh, hurling, helva, “Inshallah,” “godverdomme”—all of it was our culture, Joseph O’Neill writes.
Jamil Jan Kochai on Unmooring Memories
Deborah Treisman interviews the writer Jamil Jan Kochai about “The Twice-Widowed Khala Helai,” his story from the June 8, 2026,…