SHE’S named her latest album The Tortured Poets Department but Taylor Swift has created this insufferable Tortured Parents Society – and I’m one who refuses to add a single digit to the one billion times her latest album was streamed on Spotify in just a week. The reason? Folk like me are getting sick and […]
This week’s story is about a couple that fears that a fierce storm is going to bring a tree down on the power lines near their cabin in the countryside, potentially endangering them and their young daughter. When did this scenario first come to you? Although readers will receive this story very much through the […]
(Spoilers follow.) Some readers love thrillers, others love mysteries—my idea of a page-turner is a Sad Rich Girl novel. Show me a discontented daughter of privilege who wiles away her days agonizing over how dull life is, complaining about nepobaby accusations, or—most deliciously—wishing she were poor so there was some damn romance in her life, […]
This illustration shows a human in various stages of movement, occasionally moving underneath a rain cloud. With the pandemic receding and a fraught election season looming, Americans seem more concerned than ever about mental health — yours, mine and that of the next leader of the free world. According to the C.D.C., a whopping 57.2 […]
A decade ago, thinking about a pair of independent films more than a generation apart—Claudia Weill’s “Girlfriends” (1978) and Alex Ross Perry’s “The Color Wheel” (2011)— I was struck by how much their delicate blends of comedy and drama owed to the directors’ senses of distance, their discerning choices about how far from the actors […]
Following months of escalating protests over its response to Israel’s war on Gaza, and just four days on from the cancellation of its annual literary awards , embattled free expression organization PEN America has now also announced the cancelation of its World Voices Festival. According to a press release published on the organization’s website in […]
Even before the release of Beyoncé’s Billboard 200-topping album Cowboy Carter , Ryan Beatty was having a banner 2024. His name is in the liner notes to Bleachers’ self-titled fourth album as a co-writer, and he’ll open for Noah Kahan this summer and Maggie Rogers in the fall — all in support of his own […]
The following is a story from Uche Okonkwo’s collection A Kind of Madness . Okonkwo’s stories have been published in A Public Space, One Story, the Kenyon Review, Ploughshares, The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2019 , and Lagos Noir . She is a recipient of the George Bennett Fellowship at Phillips Exeter Academy, a Steinbeck […]
The poem begins. Photograph courtesy of Maureen McLane. For our series Making of a Poem, we’re asking poets to dissect the poems they’ve published in our pages. Maureen N. McLane’s poem “ Haptographic Interface ” appears in the new Spring issue of the Review. How did this poem start for you? Was it with an […]
He’s been called one of the America’s leading humanists , and now he’s taking a step back. Robert Pogue Harrison , Rosina Pierotti Professor in Italian Literature in the Department of French & Italian at Stanford and has formally retired and is now professor emeritus – but thank goodness he promises not to go away! […]
