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 ...

Of the two hundred or so young conservative environmentalists gathered at Tennessee’s Montgomery Bell State Park for the annual summit of the American Conservation Coalition, we were among the lucky ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Drug Cartels Do Not Exist: Narcotrafficking in U.S. and Mexican Culture, by Oswaldo Zavala, translated by William Savinar. Vanderbilt University Press. 206 pages. $34.95. The Dope: The Real History of ...

Let’s start with a wicked little paragraph. Guy Debord chose to kill himself the old-fashioned way; Jean-Luc Godard—“the dumbest Swiss Maoist of them all,” in the words of the amusing ...

The moment I lost my fertility I started searching for a baby. At age thirty-one, after almost two decades of chronic pain caused by endometriosis and its little-studied ravages, I had my uterus, my ...

Last year, Hari Kunzru took a walk around London. Or not quite a walk but a dérive, a French term appropriated by the Situationist International political group that is often translated to mean ...