admin The Strange Emptiness of the Crowded Governor’s Race in California
The state’s ballot is nineteen inches long, and lists sixty-one gubernatorial candidates. But where are the star applicants? Nathan Heller…
A Talent for Seeming
Fiction, excerpted from a novel in progress, by Jonathan Franzen, the author of “Crossroads” and “The Corrections”: Lust wasn’t her…
Victor Wembanyama Towers Over the Thunder, and the Game of Basketball
San Antonio’s Game Seven victory against Oklahoma City announced the arrival of the N.B.A.’s most remarkable new superstar in years,…
All That Glimmers at Ambassadors Clubhouse
Helen Rosner reviews the Punjabi restaurant Ambassadors Clubhouse, in NoMad, from Jyotin, Karam, and Sunaina Sethi and their restaurant group…
Ben Gibbard on Breaking Out of Lyrical Jail
Hanif Abdurraqib interviews Ben Gibbard, the front man of Death Cab for Cutie, discussing nostalgia, loss, and why he can’t…
Marilyn Monroe Made Being Photographed an Art
Rachel Syme, in an excerpt from “Marilyn Monroe 100,” writes about a dress of Monroe’s that Kim Kardashian wore to…
“Backrooms,” “Obsession,” and Hollywood’s Zoomer-Horror Renaissance
Kane Parsons’s début, starring Chiwetel Ejiofor and Renate Reinsve, doesn’t quite cohere—but Curry Barker’s takes a familiar premise to a…
The Paperboy’s Secret
In boyhood, guilt was a constant companion, Peter Hessler writes. I stopped mentioning the quarters that Mr. Wood put into…
Looking Back at Lewis and Clark
Caleb Crain on a recent book about the explorers by Craig Fehrman which adopts the perspectives of several members of…
Playground Purgatory
Shouts & Murmurs by Colin Nissan: “Sometimes, when I’m in the sandbox, I can feel myself sinking, like something is…