by The Editors
January 27, 2025
We are a quarter of the way through the new century, and the state of high culture is not what it should be. Individuals are no less brilliant, but there is a clear institutional lack. It’s as if the great publishers, film producers, and record labels can no longer provide us the artistic nourishment that…
by Zack Rogow
November 8, 2026
No, it’s for all the ones the poems were written to: / Catullus’ Lesbia, of the more-than-you-can-count kisses; / the dark lady of Shakespeare’s sonnets / and the even darker gentleman; / Akhmatova’s Nikolay, lost to endless gulag frosts; / the many “unremembered lads” who / turned to Edna St. Vincent Millay “at midnight with…
November 3, 2026
Talking to the Los Angeles Times in 2014 he said, “I think I’m an okay writer, but a very good storyteller,” and then, on a whim during Covid, he sat in the office of his palatial 25,000-square-foot Palm Beach home (“it’s pretty fucking . . . kind of obnoxious”), at the heavy, round wooden table…
by David Melone
October 31, 2026
The French woman comes down from the mountain talking about Nietzsche.I hear her coming. I step outside.She isn’t alone. She stops, takes water, glances toward the doorway where I am standing while her companion, who apparently was no real companion, continues on, waving bye. I watch them interact, or I watch as they cease interacting,…
October 30, 2026
My father’s partner died in April. A chest infection became pneumonia and took her with merciful speed. It might have been shockingly fast had it not been long presaged by a cough that sounded like bony fingers rattling the doorknob. Most of us thought that the door would give in the winter, when the ill-fit…
October 28, 2026
I spent a month traveling all over the country interviewing people about America’s 250th anniversary. My plan was to write something about what is, in my view, one of the most fully realized novels about a prospective second American Civil War, Christopher Brown’s Tropic of Kansas, which was published in 2017. I had begun to…
October 25, 2026
At three in the morning, / the mind becomes a house / where all the doors have been left unlatched. / It doesn’t think of grand things. / It doesn’t solve the equations of the stars / or settle the ancient debts of the heart. / Instead, it watches a single curtain move. / It…
October 23, 2026
Very little is certain in our tumultuous times, but one thing I can always rely on is being let down by a popular or acclaimed piece of contemporary art. There are various reasons behind these disappointments, but a common blotch they all bear is a flagrant, disciplined indifference from their artists — young and old,…
by Vanessa Ogle
October 21, 2026
Vanessa Ogle: You’ve written memoirs and even a children’s book, but most know you from reality TV, your podcast empire, and social media. Why is it important for you to still make space for literature in a world where social media can be more profitable?
Kail Lowry: For me, I felt like I was spending…
by Sam Jennings
October 19, 2026
I’ll say this for Digger — it made me think. Specifically, it made me think about two things: 1) just how condescending Alejandro G. Iñárritu is being towards his audience; and 2) whether Tom Cruise is simply too great a movie star to be a great actor as well. In an attempt to honor the…