Speaking with George Packer at the New Orleans Book Festival, the author was eager to return to the subject of fiction.

Yes, trying to organize a group that’s averse to affiliation is hard. But independents’ uncoordinated approach is self-defeating.

Barnes & Noble was once the avatar for sinister big-box stores on the march against independent businesses. In 1998’s You’ve Got Mail, Tom Hanks plays an executive at Foxbooks, a thinly disguised ...

Those who have chosen to try to keep up with the news cycle in 2026 are awareing themselves to death, as the writer Geoff George put it. What are these gooners actually doing? Wasting hours each day ...

Nominees: Will Tracy ( Bugonia ), Guillermo del Toro ( Frankenstein ), Chloé Zhao and Maggie O’Farrell ( Hamnet ), Paul ...

O ne of Pete Hegseth’s first actions after taking charge at the Pentagon was to fire top lawyers in the Army, Navy, and Air Force—senior officers who the defense secretary sai ...

Three recent stories have forced me to wonder if I was just looking in the wrong places.

Now Donald Trump has finally ousted Noem, but in her place, he is sending them Republican Senator Markwayne Mullin of Oklahoma. Mullin is a former mixed-martial-arts fighter, a current fighter for ...

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The actor Stellan Skarsgård has slowly cultivated one of Hollywood’s most impressive resumes.

Please don’t take him just because you can.” The Jolene Doctrine sounds like the corollary to the way a senior administration official described the president’s approach to Goldberg back in 2018: “The ...

A mystery looms over the first 90 minutes of The Secret Agent, the Brazilian director Kleber Mendonça Filho’s masterful fifth feature: Why is Armando Solimões on the run? The sad-eyed research ...