Books & Fiction
Short stories and poems, plus author interviews, profiles, and tales from the world of literature.
Shouts & Murmurs
Other Admissions in Kristi Noem’s Book
“My greatest ambition is to keep serving this great country of ours in elected office. My second-greatest ambition is to duel the Aflac duck.”
By Emily Zauzmer
Infinite Scroll
The Internet’s New Favorite Philosopher
Byung-Chul Han, in treatises such as “The Burnout Society” and his latest, “The Crisis of Narration,” diagnoses the frenetic aimlessness of the digital age.
By Kyle Chayka
The Weekend Essay
The “Epic Row” Over a New Epoch
Scientists, journalists, and artists often say that we live in the Anthropocene, a new age in which humans shape the Earth. Why do some leading geologists reject the term?
By Elizabeth Kolbert
Annals of Gastronomy
A Martini Tour of New York City
My month of vermouth-rinsing and fat-washing.
By Gary Shteyngart