An offer you can’t refuse: One of America’s leading film critics re-evaluates his beloved medium
It's not violence or morbid subject matter per se that bothers Thomson, but our collective response to this material.
L’etat, c’est lui: NYT reporters Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan take stock of the first year in Trump’s second presidency
Whether the volume will remain relevant once this hideous presidency finally comes to a close is anybody's guess.
31 Days of Stories 2026, Day 31: “The Wharf Rats” by Eric Walrond
Walrond paid particular attention to regional dialects, drawing careful distinctions between the way Bajan, Panamanian, and British Guianese characters spoke.
31 Days of Stories 2026, Day 30: Diving Board
Downey practises what fellow Argentine writer Mariana Enríquez calls "bizarro fiction."
31 Days of Stories 2026, Day 28: The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien
The Things They Carried is described on its title page as "A work of fiction by Tim O'Brien."
31 Days of Stories 2026, Day 27: “Bride” by Julia Elliott
Elliott's story does not contain explicit references to The Name of the Rose but its subject and approach lend itself to the interpretation.
31 Days of Stories 2026, Day 26: “Children of the Corn” by Stephen King
The children of Gatlin are enthralled by a violent version of religion based on sacrifice and bloodshed.
31 Days of Stories 2026, Day 24: “Big Cat” by Louise Erdrich
Erdrich situates one fracture in her central characters' relationship in the wife's snoring.
31 Days of Stories 2026, Day 21: “The Qilin” by Jun’ichirō Tanizaki; Bryan Karetnyk, trans.
Unlike much of Tanizaki's fiction, "The Qilin" does not take place in Japan, but in China.
31 Days of Stories 2026, Day 20: “Schalken the Painter” by Sheridan Le Fanu
The story anticipates Stoker's novel and an entire library of supernatural fiction that follows it.