There is a man in my mountain town who runs for office every chance he gets. Last year he ran for both the U.S. Senate and the state senate of Montana, eventually withdrawing from the first race and getting disqualified from the second. He ran for city council in 2017, during which contest he wrote…

Zoë Hu , January 7, 2020 Small Worlds The inward-looking lives of Little Women Sony Pictures Word Factory W o r d F a c t o r y What is Little Women? It’s a book by Louisa May Alcott. It is seven films, a BBC mini-series, and a Broadway musical. It’s a parable of feminist authorship. Who are the…

Louis Garrel as Professor Bhaer in Greta Gerwig’s Little Women Last week, my parents saw Little Women. My mother immediately phoned me. “I think Professor Bhaer is Jewish,” she said, her voice vibrating with barely suppressed excitement. I said I didn’t think the facts supported this theory. But…

Visit us on Threads! Opens External Webpage Visit us on Bluesky! Opens External Webpage Mail to Print page Submit a letter: Email us letters@nybooks.com Reviewed: The Topeka School by Ben Lerner Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 282 pp., $27.00 What is a museum guard to do, I thought to myself; what,…

Pivot To Image I had reached the point of diminishing returns. I wanted to quit Twitter, but my fingers were as if possessed, typing command+n, tw, return at any lull in the workday, letting autofill take care of the rest. Like an old woman who finds herself at a familiar bus stop in her nightgown,…

Near the beginning of Ben Lerner’s third novel, a teenager named Adam Gordon creeps into what he thinks is his girlfriend’s house. He goes into the bathroom and notices the toiletries there aren’t hers. “Along with the sheer terror of finding himself in the wrong house,” writes Lerner, “with his…

A Drosophila melanogaster fruit fly engineered with a gene drive that caused it to have red fluorescent eyes.Credit...Craig Cutler for The New York Times Feature A new genetic engineering technology could help eliminate malaria and stave off extinctions — if humanity decides to unleash it. A…

I first read Dostoyevsky’s final novel, The Brothers Karamazov (1880), on the recommendation of a young man. I was 18. He was two years older and more or less out of his mind. I recall the solemnity with which I told my mother I would love him forever. Two things stayed with me from that first…

In 2006, a team of Norwegian researchers set out to study how experienced psychotherapists help people to change. Led by Michael Rønnestad, a professor of clinical psychology at the University of Oslo, the team followed 50 therapist-patient pairs, tracking, in minute detail, what the therapists did…

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Courtesy: Chioma Ebinama I always assumed that I would spend the perimenopausal years of my life living alone in an unfurnished studio apartment, shouting incorrect Jeopardy! answers at my ancient television set and keeping company with none but a feral cat. I’m not a conventionally attractive…

Rachel Rabbit White (left). Photo: Brian Finke It’s her first-ever book party, and Rachel Rabbit White — the poet, writer, sex-work legend, activist, and ex–Times Square stripper — is all dolled up. I’ve never seen her otherwise, online or off. Tonight her brunette hair is blown out, curled, and…

Andrea Long Chu. (Photo by Maria Tomanova) S hort, sharp shock, like three bullets from Valerie Solanas’s gun, is the resounding effect of what the critic Andrea Long Chu writes. That’s how her high s

A Charmed Life Chris Kraus October 22, 2019 The best satire seems to spring from hatred and repugnance: Swift, Juvenal, Martial, Pope… Satire, I suspect, is usually written by powerless people. It is an act of revenge. – Mary McCarthy I’ve always loved Mary McCarthy. She fit the—very tiny, exacting,…

BY Audrey Wollen in Opinion | 09 SEP 19 While some have written that Norman Fucking Rockwell! is about the coming end of America, Del Rey knows that America is already over A BY Audrey Wollen in Opinion | 09 SEP 19 Lana Del Rey, Norman Fucking Rockwell!, 2019. Courtesy: Polydor/Interscope Where is…

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Sophie Helf. Photo: Tavish Timothy Sophie Helf (@jil_slander) is a computer programmer and writer originally from the Bay Area who currently lives in New York. She is very good at getting lost in Brooklyn. This week, Sophie and I talked milkmaid blouses, Co-Star, and putting Glossier products up…

Brandy Jensen, The Outline’s Power editor, has made a lot of mistakes in her life. Has she learned from them and become a wiser person as a result? Hahaha oh gosh no. But it does leave her uniquely qualified to tell you what not to do — because she’s probably done it. Dear Fuck-Up, I’m 29 and a very…

Em um dos poucos esquetes memoráveis do último Emmy, Ben Stiller perguntou à audiência o que um comediante da velha guarda pensaria sobre o naipe das séries indicadas, começando por Fleabag— a “comédia sobre uma ninfomaníaca”. Parece improvável, é claro, que um homem possa formar uma opinião…

Overtones Examining the glittering melancholy of Robyn’s music with some help from diehard fans including Carly Rae Jepsen and Perfume Genius September 12, 2018 Photo by Burak Cingi/Redferns When Robyn returned this summer, she was met by her adoring fans not as a queen nodding to her subjects, but…

BROOKLYN, NY — Caroline Calloway had come to spill the tea. Those were her words, not anyone else's. Sitting onstage at the Bell House in Brooklyn Friday night, the Instagram influencer made her first major public appearance — and first public statements outside of media interviews — since her…

Visit us on Threads! Opens External Webpage Visit us on Bluesky! Opens External Webpage Mail to Print page Submit a letter: Email us letters@nybooks.com I’ve always been aware of being an inconsistent personality. Of having a lot of contradictory voices knocking around my head. As a kid, I was…

When the 16-year-old climate activist Greta Thunberg first started campaigning for the climate outside Swedish Parliament in the late summer of 2018, her intention was not to travel around the world delivering urgent addresses about climate change to executives, diplomats, and elected officials.…

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Photo: Marcus Cooper “I feel so unstable, fucking hate these people, how they’re making me feel lately,” Charli XCX sings on “Gone,” one of the best singles from her newly released, long-awaited third

The first thing that hit me about Zealandia was the noise. I was a 15-minute drive from the center of Wellington, New Zealand’s capital city, but instead of the honks of horns or the bustle of passersby, all I could hear was birdsong. It came in every flavor—resonant coos, high-pitched cheeps, and…

On August 14th, The We Company (the company formerly known as WeWork) filed its mandatory S-1 paperwork to go public, and it’s worth reading in full. I mean, forget the serious stuff for a moment. The thing begins with an epigram: “We dedicate this to the energy of we — greater than any one of us,…

Credit...Associated Press The New Nativists Newly unearthed documents reveal how an environmental-minded socialite became an ardent nativist whose money helped sow the seeds of the Trump anti-immigration agenda. Credit...Associated Press Aug. 14, 2019 She was an heiress without a cause — an…

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To the majority of her fans, 19-year-old Clairo’s rise was the quintessential anyone-can-do-it success story of the viral era. But a vocal minority began to wonder whether it was a more familiar tale than anyone was letting on. What’s real for the young pop star? By • - One day, when Claire Cottrill…

Personal History My best friend left her laptop to me in her will. Twenty years later, I turned it on and began my inquest. July 1, 2019 Illustration by Rebekka Dunlap The piping on the red snowsuit was yellow, and on the green snowsuit it was blue: fire-engine red, sunflower yellow, summer-grass…

By the Book Credit...Jillian Tamaki “A really good middle-grade novel,” says the New Yorker essayist, whose debut collection is “Trick Mirror,” “will supersede a lot of contemporary fiction in terms of economy, lucidity and grace.” What books are on your nightstand? When I like a book, I carry it…

“This can wind up strengthening democracy,” said David Miranda, who is at the center of an intensifying dispute with President Jair Bolsonaro.Credit...Dado Galdieri for The New York Times RIO DE JANEIRO — The votes had been tallied, and the skies of Rio de Janeiro crackled with fireworks as…

17 min read In September 2004, New Yorker writer Jia Tolentino, then 15, tried out for a reality show. She and her parents were at a mall in Houston when they noticed a booth advertising a casting call, and her dad offered her $20 to audition, as a joke. Three months later, Tolentino was on a plane…

Pete Buttigieg as a senior at Harvard in 2004.Credit...Harvard University THE LONG RUN And why it took him until he was 33 to come out. Pete Buttigieg as a senior at Harvard in 2004.Credit...Harvard University July 14, 2019 The closet that Pete Buttigieg built for himself in the late 1990s and 2000s…

It’s hard to not to have a love/hate relationship with the underground party scene in Taipei. Sure, you’ll meet a lot of strange and interesting people; I can’t deny that it all feels very fun in the moment, on the dance floor. But there are maybe just too many crazy people out there. I’ve gotten a…

Paper Chase On a cold December night in 1926, Agatha Christie went out in her beloved Morris Cowley roadster and didn’t return home for 11 days. Here’s how her disappearance played out. June 11, 2019 It was like a plot from one of her own novels: On the evening of Dec. 4, Agatha Christie, carrying…

Nonfiction Credit...Tallulah Fontaine AmazonApple BooksBarnes and NobleBooks-A-MillionBookshop When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. KATHLEEN HALE IS A CRAZY STALKER Six Essays By Kathleen Hale Authors hold a strange place in our cultural…