It is a matter of necessity or a choice freely made; a burdensome condition or a vintage-Polaroid fantasy: to live in a van.

Drawn in peppermint chalk is honest, the way no writing, not Even a diary, is honest, even though it too is a record of sorts, A record of the number of breaths drawn while writing at night. The child ...

We will never know how many died during the Butlerian Jihad. Was it millions? Billions? Trillions, perhaps? It was a fantastic rage, a great revolt that spread like wildfire, consuming everything in ...

How has the experience of siblinghood been transposed into literature? In three famous examples, through the dramatic surrender of one’s life (Antigone), through species transformation (The ...

Last year, a Japanese sumo wrestler named Onosato became the seventy-fifth athlete to be awarded the sport’s highest honor: the title of yokozuna, or grand champion. His achievement was a particular ...

Much of the conversation regarding AI to date has concerned its potential for unleashing cosmic dangers or its nebulous promises of global salvation. In practice, however, plenty of the young people ...

Of all the niche communities birthed by the modern internet, “gooners” might be the most alien, and to many, the most repellent. Gooning, writes Daniel Kolitz in the November issue, is “a new kind of ...

The word “relevant,” I was recently surprised to discover, shares an etymology with the word “relieve.” This seems obvious enough once you know it—only a few letters separate the words—but their ...

Franz Kafka was a skinny fellow; he claimed he was the thinnest person he knew. As a young man, he deliberately developed a facial tic. He sometimes felt he didn’t really exist, or if he did, only in ...

When I was growing up in Los Angeles, I didn’t call myself “Latino,” and neither did anyone else I knew. My father was born in a verdant village in Guatemala’s banana-growing region; my mother was ...

is a writer and bell ringer who lives in England.

In May 2019, the German Bundestag passed a resolution declaring the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement anti-Semitic. According to the text, the movement’s call to withhold economic support ...