“The beauty of Bookworm,” observes Kevin Lozano for the NYR Online, “is that it elevates conversation—the dance between two minds—into

The airman who set himself alight on Sunday signed up to sacrifice himself for the greater good—only to discover that he had become an accomplice to evil.

“Like, Comment, Subscribe,” a new history of the platform by Mark Bergen, makes the case that YouTube cracked the code for turning the desire to watch and be watched into money.

Ben Smith’s Traffic charts the boom and bust of a new age of online journalism.

Michael Silverblatt’s voice has been described as “so hypnotic, so compelling, that it apparently has prevented people driving on the LA freeways from

How a warming world is sparking calls for a greener web

Four writers on the legacy of Berlant’s thinking both in the academy and in public life.

Her debut, Strangers to Ourselves, asks: Who shapes the story of someone's illness?

The decline and fall of the glossy.

Xiaowei Wang’s Blockchain Chicken Farm surveys the tech industry in the Chinese countryside to upend the way we talk about the Internet in the West.

A conversation with the poet and Nobel laureate about her career, teaching, her next book, and more.

One of rock’s great lyricists died earlier this week. His last album, Purple Mountains, is a fitting bookend to his rich and wrenching career.

Cathy Park Hong’s Minor Feelings grapples with the contradictions of Asian American experience in order to tell a story of solidarity.

The iconoclastic artist moves to a plush and magisterial kind of rock music for a gratifying and intense record, one whose pleasures are viscerally immediate.

This war is happening for one reason: the prolonged suffering and occupation that Palestinians have endured for seven decades.

After October 7, this question has become a matter of grave importance, amid crackdowns on free speech and protest. Five writers reflect on the state of Palestinian life today.

In his new eight-hour epic, the British filmmaker offers a globe-trotting chronicle of our times. 

The poet’s recently released memoir of the 1960s, Spring and Autumn Annals, is an essential document in the history of New York’s downtown art scene.

It’s part of a double B-side, the UK singer and producer’s first new music in more than six years.

How can one life be used to remember the collective pain of a generation’s political and cultural upheaval? 

An Asian American writer grapples with interracial love in a time of disaster.

Hari Kunzru’s ambitious new novel Red Pill plumbs the depth of right-wing and liberal ideas as it tracks one man’s descent into a web-induced mania. 

In the hours after Hamas launched a surprise offensive against Israel, several commentators—Israeli and Palestinian—invoked another unexpected attack from

The famed whistleblower, trans activist, and current Senate hopeful talks about some of her favorite dance tracks.

In The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge, the German poet’s only novel, a young artist contends with the contradictions of urban experience and the dream of pastoral life 

The artist's first solo show, is a reminder that pleasure is inseparable from the joint projects of abolition and freedom.

Jonathan Franzen’s Midwestern broods, like horsemen of the apocalypse, ride through his books heralding various endings: of eras, of bygone mores, of novels themselves.

From problematic funders to union-busting, museums around the world have been beset by controversy. Can reform actually change these institutions?

Her new essay collection, Let Me Tell You What I Mean, captures what about her writing feels at once seductive and illusory.

A new history by Gabriel Winant examines how an economy of care—and with it a new working class—emerged out of deindustrialization.

Eviction blockades and neighbors coming together might be tenants’ best defense against landlords.

Cathy Park Hong’s Minor Feelings grapples with the contradictions of Asian American experience in order to tell a story of solidarity.

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In A Collective Bargain, Jane McAlevey makes the case for strike-ready unions and whole worker organizing. But in an age of globalized economies and climate change, is this enough?

In “The Lights,” Lerner gets lyrical about Auto-Tune, ‘Back to the Future’ and critics who’ve been mean to him.