The novel’s main two conflicts center on the university. First, there is an ongoing existential battle being waged between the university (the purview of the academics) and the city’s wild, unstoppable greenery (the purview of the gardeners, a...
Margaret is entirely aware of what she’s doing when she pulls off these empathetic maneuvers, but she remains oblivious to how she herself is being puppeteered—when she speaks Russian or Korean, when she clucks. There’s a link between...
“They say modern love’s a cruel endeavor,” Olivia Rodrigo sings on “u + me = <3,” a lush, desperate new song from her third album, “You Seem Pretty Sad for a Girl So in Love.” She adds, “And...
The menu, from the French chef Marie-Aude Rose, who also runs La Mercerie, is old-fashioned in the au-courant way. A preprandial demi-baguette is laid directly on the tablecloth—no board, no basket, no plate; nothing is chicer, or more...
Millett said that she created “Terminal Piece” because “it could not be written.” The failure of language again: Is it because language is itself a social system and therefore ultimately untrustworthy? Is the art work, with its autonomy...
The cover of the June 22, 2026, issue captures the joy on the streets of the city in the hours following OG Anunoby’s rocket-fuelled tip-in that capped the New York Knicks’ historic win over the San Antonio Spurs...
Margaret, following her nutty North Star wherever it leads, would have been right at home in “Close Encounters of the Third Kind” (1977), in which U.F.O. sightings make enraptured believers of a select few. But that’s hardly the...
The best rationale for First Lady memoirs is that the domestic details they offer can serve as a lever, lifting the reader from the mundane to reach some larger ideal that is, if not political, at least profound....
Once Upon a Time There Was Truth, by Jack Zipes (Yale). Zipes, an accomplished scholar of fairy tales, explores the genre’s enduring appeal and its social functions in this erudite essay collection. He acknowledges the long global history...
