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Things Worth Remembering: What You’re Really Hungry For
The internet blitzes our brains with excitement; this novel will remind you what you’re actually longing for.
July 20, 2025
Spencer Klavan
Suzy Weiss: Are You Enterpained?
Plus: The art world’s ‘state of the union’ address. Stay-at-home motherhood gets a rebrand. And more!
July 19, 2025
Suzy Weiss
What I Went Through to Meet My Daughter
A thousand miles from New York City, the place I call home, there’s a clinic that vows to help women with ‘unexplained infertility.’ I traveled there…
July 19, 2025
Madeleine Kearns
Should Your Husband Tie Your Shoes?
There’s a social media trend where women boast about their boyfriends tying their shoelaces for them. People are saying it’s dangerously unfeminist. I…
July 16, 2025
Kat Rosenfield
The White Man Who Pretended to Be Black to Get Published
A young poet pretended to be ‘a gender-fluid member of the Nigerian diaspora,’ and wrote intentionally bad poems. He says he got 47 of them published.
July 16, 2025
River Page
The Right’s 1939 Project
How a visible faction of the MAGA movement is revising American history, reviving dangerous conspiracies, and erasing the taboo against open bigotry.
July 16, 2025
Rebeccah L. Heinrichs
Nobody Has a Personality Anymore
My generation is obsessed with treating every trait as a symptom of a disorder. You’re not shy, you’re autistic. You’re not forgetful, you’ve got ADHD.
July 15, 2025
Freya India
What Dead Birds Have to Do with the End of Europe
Throughout Europe, cratering birth rates and an accelerating brain drain are converging into a demographic crisis. You can see it now in the dying…
July 15, 2025
Josephine de La Bruyère
It’s a Fascist! It’s a Communist! No, It’s Superman!
James Gunn’s blockbuster is America’s favorite Rorschach test. What do you see?
July 14, 2025
Will Rahn
How to Have a Happy Retirement
Coming to terms with being alone is crucial. Solitude is an older person’s need, something that has to be built into a day like all the other…
July 13, 2025
Gerald Marzorati
Gerald Marzorati on How He Learned to Love Retirement
‘People stop caring what you think about most everything, which, in its own way, is a form of freedom—if you can understand it that way.’
July 13, 2025
Suzy Weiss
22M
Suzy Weiss: What Do Rich Dorks Buy?
The dealer of fine arts is auctioning a dinosaur skeleton. Plus: Weddings are obscene now. But Lena Dunham’s new show is great.
July 12, 2025
Suzy Weiss
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