How Caro Claire Burke Wrote the Biggest Book of the Year
Rachel Syme interviews the novelist Caro Claire Burke about her best-selling début novel, “Yesteryear,” gender in the modern age, and…
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Casey Cep writes on “Something to Love,” by Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit, and growing up in the South…
Did the Dodgers Ruin Baseball?
Already the title favorites, Los Angeles acquired the league’s best pitcher at the trade deadline—and may have insured a lockout…
How Golden Is Silence, Actually?
Anthony Lane reviews Kate McLoughlin’s “Silence: A Literary History.”
The American Art of Blowing Stuff Up
The Gruccis, often called the First Family of Fireworks, have been in the pyrotechnics business for six generations. Paige Williams…
The Senate’s Shameful Acquiescence to Todd Blanche as Attorney General
Ruth Marcus on the ongoing saga of Todd Blanche’s Attorney General confirmation hearings.
An Uncompromising Belgian Novelist’s Afterlife as a BookTok Star
Katy Waldman on Jacqueline Harpman, a Belgian Jewish author and psychoanalyst whose fiction has become an unlikely BookTok sensation.
“Tony,” “Late Fame,” and the Rocky Road to Literary Stardom
Justin Chang reviews Matt Johnson’s bio-pic “Tony,” starring Dominic Sessa and Antonio Banderas, and Kent Jones’s drama “Late Fame,” with…
The Modern R. & B. of Olivia Dean and Baby Rose
Also: Cat Cohen’s one-woman musical comedy, the Anthony Bourdain bio-pic “Tony,” Battery Dance Festival by the water, and more.
A.I. Is Now a Major Election Issue
Politicians on the left—such as Bernie Sanders, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and Abdul El-Sayed—have been critical of data centers, Benjamin Wallace-Wells writes.…