EXT. 8TH STREET—LATE AFTERNOON (C. 1959). CAMERA IN NONSTOP MOTION is on the shoulder of a young man, late teens, intently walking west on a busy Greenwich Village thoroughfare. Under one arm, he’s ...

The fervor around Onosato, perhaps not incidentally, has coincided with the remarkable electoral success of Japan’s far right. This has been best exemplified by Sanseito, an insurgent political party ...

Sam Kriss on AI’s false starts, doomsday scenarios, and eccentric proponents ...

In place of conservation—the active tending of nature—a rigid preservationism has taken root, one that confuses neglect for virtue and sidelines the human role in keeping the land healthy and alive.

You’d be the world’s worst journalist.” She is, of course, correct. An interview is not an ideal forum for fiction. But what sort of recording device is the novel? A poor one, at least from the ...

Consider Hansel and Gretel, sent away because there was not enough to eat. In times of scarcity, when another mouth to feed means ruin for the poor, two children working together may be a ...

But these assessments reveal little about the true state of the conflict and whether Ukraine’s current trajectory—in territorial, demographic, and diplomatic terms—is sustainable. In fact, the record ...

“The West as we knew it,” Ursula von der Leyen claimed earlier this year, “no longer exists.” It is not necessary to explore what the president of the European Commission means by “the West” to ...

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We will never know how many died during the Butlerian Jihad. Was it millions? Billions? Trillions, perhaps? It was a fantastic rage, a great revolt that spread like wildfire, consuming everything in ...

Three springs ago, I lost the better part of my mind. I remember it starting with my feet. I woke up one February morning in the South Bronx apartment I’d just moved into with my husband, and my feet ...