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…
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…
by Nina Deval
October 17, 2026
In the cloud of rumors and allegations engulfing him, I discerned the outline of a kindred spirit. The stern language of the university’s sexual harassment report, the annual email from the campus women’s group warning about the dangerous criminal law professor . . . I confess all this only intrigued me. No one offered concrete…
by Adam Pearson
October 16, 2026
At the tail end of summer, Dwight Garner accomplished what few legacy media critics have since the days of Michiko Kakutani: he wrote a review that helped sell a book. A literary novel of more than 600 pages, no less. It was a conservative first printing. At 37,000 copies, Riverhead Books was not expecting a…
by Max Bolen
October 14, 2026
“Heteronormativity is just so broken,” declares Alex (Glori Dei Filippone), a Gender Studies master’s student at Columbia, in the opening minutes of Floating Carousel, a new indie dramedy that made its New York debut last month. Alex then suggests that her dinner host, a Doctor of Entomology, may not be able to completely follow her…
October 9, 2026
There’s a certain wistfulness that permeates the disposition of millennials and Generation X regarding the overly digitized world of today. Gen Z used to scoff at the nostalgia-afflicted millennial superiority complex by way of “Only ’90s Kids Remember This” internet memes of the 2010s, yet that same nostalgia affliction has caught up to Gen Z…
by Eric Bies
October 6, 2026
The title of Guillermo Stitch’s last novel was Lake of Urine. His latest is The Coast of Everything. Clearly the man is a fan of geography. But, then, as a novelist why shouldn’t he be? Bodies of water persist as some of our richest, most versatile metaphors, and if memorable, imaginative storytelling banks on any…