Take it from me: A crossword clue can be debated with the kind of fervor normally reserved for corporatist propaganda and outright racism.

After becoming a parent, Aviv revisited some of her old stories, finding newly revealing details and asking follow-up questions.

Working in the wilderness could not satiate my intellectual impulses. But for the protagonist of Hothouse Bloom, the binary between mental and physical labor is what calls her.

In her most personal work, The Möbius Book, Lacey uses a devastating moment of heartbreak to ruminate on the messy intersections between life and writing.

This past winter, the morning after arriving back in New York from Sundance Film Festival, I sat on my couch, eyes bleary and dry from […]

This past winter, the morning after arriving back in New York from Sundance Film Festival, I sat on my couch, eyes bleary and dry from […]

If you are a leading woman in a Pedro Almodóvar film, your life will not be frictionless.

“The New York City guys go blasting through traffic,” a young controller on Park Avenue quipped to his fellow beanied co-worker. Not that Park Avenue, where seeing piles of pedestrians muck through sn...

The Film Comment Podcast · Episode

A warm (too warm) welcome to 2025.

To understand RFK Jr.'s rightward shift, we need to examine the Internet culture that fostered his growth—and which the Harris campaign ignored.

In No Judgment, the novelist and critic explores the perilous activity of literary criticism in the era of social media.

On social media, the children of far-right pundits and disgraced Republican candidates are achieving their own kind of fame.

How three Kentucky high schoolers joined forces to stand up to a GOP assault on their rights—and brought hundreds of people along with them.