André Aciman on Reading—and Misreading—Emotions
Each of the novellas that make up André Aciman’s new book, “Room on the Sea,” picks apart the…
Getting in Marc Maron’s Head
In its nearly sixteen years on the air, “WTF with Marc Maron” has recorded more than fifteen hundred…
Audiobooks to Save Your Road Trip
—Leo Lasdun, editorial production associate “Brideshead Revisited,” by Evelyn Waugh, narrated by Jeremy Irons Jeremy Irons puts his…
Three Books to Understand Our Ravaged Climate
The summer of 2025 has been a season of climate-driven catastrophes: wildfires in Turkey, flooding in China and…
How Elon Musk’s Chatbot Turned Evil
“Grok styling itself as a genocidal dictator is the kind of flaw that should make the entire A.I.…
Rachel Kushner’s Advice to Writers
The novelist Rachel Kushner recently taught a class at Stanford that concerned, as the course catalogue advertised it,…