Music, Art, Books, Film
Joan Acocella, Graham Greene's Dark Heart | Mar 22, 2021
Ed Caesar, Seize the Night | Oct 3, 2022
Solomun, The DJ who rules Ibiza
Adam Gopnik, The Dragon's Egg | Nov 27, 2011
JRR Tolkien, "the most boring lecturer around, teaching the most boring subject known to man, Anglo-Saxon philology and literature, in the most boring way imaginable.
John Lahr, Sinatra's Song | Nov 3, 1997
Ian Parker, The First Rule is Not To Lie | July 4, 2022
Emmanuel Carrére writes his way through a breakdown
The Kingdom (2014) is about Luke, Paul, and the early church
Claudia Roth Pierpont, Tough Guy: The mystery of Dashiell Hammett | Feb 3, 2002
David Remnick, Keeping Faith: The Gospel According to Mavis Staples | Jul 4, 2022
Paul Rogers, Paul and Audrey | Feb 8, 2021
As a tyro critic in the nineteen-sixties, I fell for the works in the Frick one by one...
Michael Schulman, On Succession, Jeremy Strong Doesn't Get The Joke | Dec 5, 2021
Parul Sehgal, The Key To Me | Jan 3&10, 2022
Fiction writers love it. Filmmakers can't resist it. But the trauma plot is wearing thin.
Mark Singer, The Man Who Forgets Nothing | Mar 19, 2000
The Minnestrone of Martin Scorsese's Mind
Faith
Vinson Cunningham, Personal Jesus | Jan 4 & 11, 2021
What Thomas Jefferson did to the gospels
Personal History & Profiles
Tad Friend, Men of Letters | Apr 18, 2022
Adam Gopnik, The Man Who Spent Forty-Two Years at the Beverly Hills Hotel Pool | Feb 14, 1993
Rachel Kushner, The Hard Crowd | Jan 18, 2021
Coming of age on the streets of San Francisco
Ben McGrath, The Undead | Jul 12 & 19, 2010
Big Papi's late innings
Akhil Sharma, Wide World of Disney
Dorothy Wickenden, Late Harvest | Feb 28, 2022
Wendell Berry profile
Short Stories
Colin Barrett, A Shooting in Rathreedane | Dec 6, 2021
Lauren Groff, Annunciation | Feb 7, 2022
story |
Lauren Groff, To Sunland | Jul 4, 2022
Ian McEwan, A Duet | Aug 1, 2022
author of Atonement and On Chesil Beach
Thomas McGuane, Take Half, Leave half | Oct 10, 2022
Humor
Carlos Greaves, Script of Every Movie Set in Boston | Oct 25, 2023
Jay Martel, Disappointing Near-Death Experiences | June 13, 2022
World
Anand Gopal, The Other Afghan Women | Sep 6, 2021
Elizabeth Kolbert | Poles Apart: How Politics Got So Polarized | Jan 3&10, 2022
Photos | Families Flee Ukraine | Mar 7, 2022
Bits
Zach Helfand | Kill The Umpire: Will robots save America's pastime? | Aug 30, 2021
Joseph Mitchell | McSorley's, the Oldest Irish Saloon in the City | Apr 14, 1940
Naaman Zhou, The Twitter Account That Collects Awkward, Amusing Writing | Apr 19, 2022
Writers