VF visits Robert Kiyosaki in Arizona to unravel the self-mythology of a longtime bestseller and friend of Trump

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When Michael Clune’s character in Pan alights on Proust in the course of his daily writing practice, he learns a mode...

The Nicholas Lanier portrait that I came across so unexpectedly at Frieze Masters doesn’t have the prestige of the Van...

On Michael Clune's 'Pan' and against the verb 'to gift'

‘When I noticed an English writer using the transitive ‘gift’ in a prestigious paper, I took the usage up with one of its editors, a Scotswoman whose fastidiousness is notorious.’

Episode 1: 'One Battle after Another'

In anticipation of tomorrow's Nobel Prize in Literature

The Thomas Pynchon experience – Christian Lorentzen

The Thomas Pynchon experience – Christian Lorentzen

On Paul Thomas Anderson’s ‘One Battle after Another’

Reflections on seeing Oasis Live ’25 at MetLife Stadium in New Jersey

On a history of Conde Nast

With apologies to the two other members of my NBA/literature group chat, to the players selected last week in the NBA draft, to Stephen A. Smith, and to my dearly departed high school English teachers

& a baptism of fire in New York City

Letters from David Foster Wallace go up for sale

At the conjuncture of rockism & poptimism

Crossroads, watershed, turning or tipping point, whatever cliché falls just this side of revolution: that’s the way...

Crossroads, watershed, turning or tipping point, whatever cliché falls just this side of revolution: that’s the way...

See you in Walthamstow tomorrow night

On Leo Robson’s ‘The Boys’, other boys, and some girls (or men and women)

When Terry Southern adapted John Barth

By the algorithm for the algorithm

She cut three slashes into a piece of chorizo, started wedging Valiums into it, and worried in a vague way that something unusual would be required of her. She thought she remembered David saying…

Gene Tierney and the first Cold War spy thriller, ‘The Iron Curtain’

On ‘Pavements’, ‘The Hard Quartet’, ‘Reality Bites’, et al.

On 'Norman Mailer vs. Fun City'