A Match Made in Heaven
Why conservative evangelicals have lined up behind Trump
Book Review
The Secret Life of Pitchers
What happens on the mound has more to do with the mind than the arm.
The Disorienting Power of My Cat Yugoslavia
A review of Pajtim Statovci’s dark debut novel
Who Stopped McCarthy?
What the history of Republican infighting can teach us today
The Stubborn Optimist
Following the persevering example of the writer and activist Grace Paley
Lessons of the Hermit
Hiding in a forest for 27 years, a man found what the rest of us can no longer comprehend: solitude in nature.
A Writer’s Turmoil in The Rules Do Not Apply
The journalist Ariel Levy has the rare gift of seeing herself with fierce, unforgiving clarity, and deploys prose to match in her memoir.
The Sentimental Sadist
Ghosts and schmaltz haunt George Saunders’s first novel.
It’s Getting Harder to Believe in Silicon Valley
Awestruck visions of the tech industry have become less convincing than ever.
Before Straight and Gay
The discreet, disorienting passions of the Victorian era