Bret Stephens is mad at these books, you should buy them and read them, not just the SCARY PR COPY that triggered him like a snowflake. No, I won’t link this fuckshit here, because I won’t drive tra...

Annie Lowrey explains why government makes getting help so damn complicated

On August 11, 2023, local law enforcement seized electronics and reporting materials from the Marion County Record in a raid that provoked a national outcry over the blatant press freedom violation…

Randall Lane, the magazine’s chief content officer, received the money from the founder of Shook Research, which has worked with Forbes on content about wealth advisers.

Gerson Turcios was 17 when he fled violence in Honduras to build a new life in the US. Six years later, he was mowing lawns in his home town of Rhinebeck when immigration officers took him. Within hou...

Musician’s projects included Madonna’s Ray of Light, Blur’s 13 and All Saints’ chart-topping singles Pure Shores and Black Coffee William Orbit, the British music producer whose dreamy yet propulsive style invigorated work by Madonna, Blur, All Saints, U2 and more, has died aged 69. A statement on his social media, attributed to family and friends, said he died at home on 23 July. “He will be greatly missed by us and by so many whose lives he touched through his music, friendship and kindness,” the statement read. No cause of death was given. Continue reading...

A fascinating new book explores the hidden costs of killing the bugs we hate — and the ones we need.

“Stones From the River,” her best-known work and an early Oprah’s Book Club selection, was set in a fictional German town in the early 20th century.

From my desk at the bookstore where I work, I can see most of fiction and all of our new releases, the poetry section by the front door, the edge of world history. I watch people bend down to exami…

The author of the Declaration of Independence thought slavery was bad. So was his solution.

This week's theme is mighty triumvirates and/or friend throuples What I read this week My Year in Paris with Gertrude Stein: A Fiction by Deborah Levy No one does it like Deborah Levy on a sentenc...

I wrote this Notebook for “Viva la Book Review,” a nonprofit that supports book reviews in print, digital, and audio media.

In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Why? The country applies the "Housing First" concept agains homelessness.

The search giant’s AI-crafted answers are so convenient, you’ll be sucked in—to the detriment of the web and the artists and thinkers behind it.

The Late Show’s final broadcast last night marked the end of Colbert’s two-decades-long tenure as a frequent interviewer of authors and passionate book booster. Publishers now ponder a future where th...

I write about books, authors, and literary culture. Formerly a book critic at The Washington Post. Click to read Ron Charles, a Substack publication with tens of thousands of subscribers.

The recent shift toward figuration on book covers may reflect a broader desire for physical presence — proof of the artist’s hand in the digital age.

In Cassandra Neyenesch’s “A Little Bit Bad,” a suburban mom hunts for her lover’s killer.

When the richest man in the world comes for your grant, and what comes next.

The Kate Medina Fellowship for Literary Narrative Nonfiction, established with the joint support of the esteemed Random House editor, will support writers whose projects engage with the New York Publi...

On E.M. Forster, book reviewing, and stubbornness.

Laila Lalami said that promoting her 2025 dystopian novel, 'The Dream Hotel,' has been an "eerie" experience. Lalami discussed her novel at the PEN World Voices Festival in New York City on May 1, on ...

This week's theme is the excesses of girlhood What I read this week Last Night in Brooklyn by Xochitl Gonzalez It's been a long time since a novel has captured a particular time and a place with s...

The Cambridge author doomscrolled her way to “The Author Weekend” — a darkly funny fiction packed with revenge, fandom, and catharsis.

Shere Hite’s unfinished vision of women’s liberation

The contradictions of Lee Miller

Jamie Ding is on a historic winning streak, but his superpower has nothing to do with gameplay. It’s his likability.

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A conflict in the journalist's code was created by a president wholly unfit for the job.