My Year of O.C.D.
Andrew Lipstein writes about obsessive-compulsive disorder. A simple e-mail or kitchen appliance could send me into a pit of anxiety.…
The Weekend Essay
admin How I Became a Lock Picker
Shayla Love on lock picking and the sport of opening locks.
The Constant Rediscovery of Barbara Trapido
Sam Knight profiles the novelist Barbara Trapido on the occasion of the reissue of her 1982 cult classic, “Brother of…
A Night Living in Penn Station
In an excerpt from Anand Giridharadas’s book “Man in the Mirror,” he writes about social workers who try to persuade…
Should the Classroom Be More Like the Gym?
Dan Rockmore considers whether education, like a tough spinning class, would be better framed as a challenge where process is…
On Not Being a Homeowner
Anna Holmes writes about her family’s struggles to gain a foothold in the world of homeownership in Davis, California, and…
The Bayeux Tapestry’s Long Journey Home
John Phipps writes about France’s loan of the Bayeux Tapestry to Britain.
Cinema Lessons from a Trash-Movie Auteur
Becca Rothfeld on the films of Neil Breen, including, most recently, “Dire Duplicity,” which premièred in May, 2026, at the…
A Passage
Ledio Cakaj on a journey he undertook from France to England in 1999, hoping to gain asylum.
When Middle Age Comes Into Focus
E. Tammy Kim writes about receiving a diagnosis of presbyopia—Greek, but not poetic, for “old eye”—and about the experience of…