Christopher Hooks on “Dubya’s Texas,” the White House UFC fight, and his plans for celebrating 250 years of America ...

How to explain to her daughter. Back when she was in college, she had taken a literary seminar for which she’d had to read Kafka’s “Letter to His Father.” After the class had discussed it, the teacher ...

Last July, 139 people were killed as a result of flooding along several rivers in central Texas. The disaster was caused, we were told, by what the experts refer to as an MCV, or mesoscale convective ...

It is a matter of necessity or a choice freely made; a burdensome condition or a vintage-Polaroid fantasy: to live in a van. During the pandemic, the writer Kristin Dombek was one of many people who ...

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 ...

At least eight people were sentenced to a minimum combined 450 years in prison for actions during an anti-ICE protest; in Europe, a major heat wave caused more than 1,000 excess deaths in France, ...

Last year, a Japanese sumo wrestler named Onosato became the seventy-fifth athlete to be awarded the sport’s highest honor: the title of yokozuna, or grand champion. His achievement was a particular ...

Much of the conversation regarding AI to date has concerned its potential for unleashing cosmic dangers or its nebulous promises of global salvation. In practice, however, plenty of the young people ...

From The Death of Trotsky: The True Story of the Plot to Kill Stalin’s Greatest Enemy, out in February from Dutton. Leon Trotsky’s whitewashed study, which abutted his simply furnished bedroom, was ...

Nell Freudenberger’s fiction has spanned settings as far-ranging as Southeast Asia, the Indian subcontinent, French Polynesia, and New York City. Across these landscapes and throughout her four novels ...

Of all the niche communities birthed by the modern internet, “gooners” might be the most alien, and to many, the most repellent. Gooning, writes Daniel Kolitz in the November issue, is “a new kind of ...