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Merve Emre Ventures Into the Age Gap
In recent years, Merve Emre—a professor, literary critic, and contributing writer at this magazine—has tackled a range of culturally salient topics, including motherhood, emotional intelligence, and gimmicks. She recently...
TikTok and the Retreat from Technological Globalization
On January 18th, at around 10:30 P.M, the social platform TikTok went dark in the United States. It remained unavailable to American users for a grand total of about...
“A Minecraft Movie” Is a Tale of Two Cinematic Universes
I’ve never played Minecraft in my life—but then I’m not a Christian, either, and have always delighted in the distinctly Mormon cinematic universe of Jared Hess, the director of...
Can A.I. Writing Be More Than a Gimmick?
The new essay collection “Searches: Selfhood in the Digital Age,” by Vauhini Vara, opens with a transcript. “If I paste some writing here, can we talk about it?” Vara...
What Do Adopted Children Owe Their Birth Parents?
“I used to work for an adoption agency, a very long time ago,” Pauline Hillen says. “Nowadays, I help adoptees in their search for their biological mothers.” But what...
Injury Cases: When to Lawyer Up (and When to Wait)
Knowing when to hire a lawyer can be tricky when dealing with a personal injury. It’s not always clear if you should jump straight into legal action or if...
What Pauline Kael Failed to See About Young Film Lovers
Pauline Kael’s most famous work for The New Yorker, her celebrated review of “Bonnie and Clyde,” from October, 1967, was the second piece she ever wrote for the magazine....
The Trump Show Comes to the Kennedy Center
On the evening of March 23rd, the Kennedy Center honored Conan O’Brien with the 2025 Mark Twain Prize for American Humor. The ceremony, which attracted a mix of comedy...
Will A.I. Save the News?
I am a forty-five-year-old journalist who, for many years, didn’t read the news. In high school, I knew about events like the O. J. Simpson trial and the Oklahoma City...
In “Dying for Sex,” Cancer and Kink Are Just the Beginning
The scariest unknown for women with cancer, after the disease itself, can be their husbands—a staggering number of whom abandon their wives in the wake of a diagnosis. From...
