Literature
Psilocybin is doing what decades of philosophy couldn't: turning committed materialists into reluctant mystics
Harold Bloom, flatterer. John Ashbery was “THE POET ABSOLUTE,” yet A.R. Ammons’s work was “larger and better” — and then there was Henri Cole
Denis Johnson's life was a mess. His prose, somehow, was immaculate. How to explain the distance between life and art?
Songwriter David Baerwald Shares an Unspeakable Family Secret in ‘The Fire Agent’
Book Review: ‘The Traveler,’ by Andrea Wulf
The Best Audiobooks of 2026 (So Far)
How Poets Went From Describing Art to Personally Admiring It
Carley Fortune Keeps Writing Hit Romance Novels
Book Review: ‘The Wreck of the Mentor,’ by Eric Jay Dolin
To anyone in love with the precious, fleeting things of this world, resistance to disappearance seems only natural and proper. And yet
The publishing midlist isn't shrinking. It's growing faster than the pool of available readers
The humanities spent decades decentering the human. Now Big Tech is doing it better
The grand tour’s most enduring truth: Even the most miraculous work of art is born not just into history, but also out of it
The dons of Oxbridge have traded the BBC for podcasts. Is this decline or progress?
Not simply trivia, not simply a hobby — for the believer, quiz verges on a way of life