From an interview with the journalist Randall Sullivan that was conducted by Finn Cohen and published in the April issue of The Sun. randall sullivan: When I was young, I ...

From an anonymous message about Rinaldo Nazzaro, the founder of The Base, a white-supremacist group, that circulated on Telegram in April. Unlike what most people and the media think, The ...

Crossroads, by Jonathan Franzen. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 592 pages. $30. The first half of Jonathan Franzen’s new novel, Crossroads, centers on an improbable church youth group in the near western ...

Yuko Tsushima’s Territory of Light (1979) was published in English in 2019, in a superb translation by the late Geraldine Harcourt. Although Harcourt had translated other Tsushima books decades ...

A few years ago, my relationship to darkness had turned a bit fanatical. I was living on the Canadian Prairies in Regina, Saskatchewan, and I’d found my way into a regimen of extreme early rising.

Listen to an audio version of this article. O n April 25, the same day that FBI agents arrested a Wisconsin judge and ICE deported a cancer-stricken four-year-old U.S. citizen to Honduras, I arrived ...

Philip Roth: The Biography, by Blake Bailey. W. W. Norton. 912 pages. $40. I ’ve never understood what others make out of non-fiction. Me, I used to make fiction out of it, but that was a while ago ...

The story liberals tell themselves goes something like this: Once, the black-cassocked sages of the Supreme Court summoned forth the true spirit of the Constitution. Their rulings vastly enlarged the ...

After the tumult of the 2008 financial crisis, the investor Bill Gross, known as “The Bond King,” was ill at ease. He’d bet on the government and against the housing market. In doing so, he made a ...

A science-fiction pioneer finds posthumous fameDiscussed in this essay: Octavia E. Butler: Kindred, Fledgling, Collected Stories, by Octavia E. Butler. Edited by Gerry Canavan and Nisi Shawl. Library ...

Like William Faulkner’s Yoknapatawpha County or Marilynne Robinson’s Gilead, Paul Harding’s imaginary New England town of Enon is repeatedly evoked in his work, giving its name to his second novel and ...

Discussed in this essay: Hubris: The American Origins of Russia’s War Against Ukraine, by Jonathan Haslam. Harvard University Press. 368 pages. $29.95. The Folly of Realism: How the West Deceived ...