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Ryan Murphy “Glee”-ifies Bret Easton Ellis’s Thriller “The Shards”
Equally lethal are Bret’s writerly aspirations. His ability to spin stories about the Trawler means that he is destabilized by the crimes in a way that his classmates aren’t....
Our Fauci Diaries, Ourselves
Joan Baez, yet another famous fan, emerges as one of the diary’s recurrent characters, and a kind of guiding spirit for this metamorphosis. She enters his orbit after a...
An Uncompromising Belgian Novelist’s Afterlife as a BookTok Star
Harpman’s picture of stripped-down desolation has resonated with many social-media users, who have praised the book’s “haunting” story and likened it to “staring into a void.” There’s an incongruity...
Eric Drooker’s “Outside Art”
For the cover of the August 10, 2026, issue, the painter and graphic novelist Eric Drooker depicted the Guggenheim Museum as a cool clearing in a forest. “I grew...
When “Get Lucky” Took Me Back to the Years of Disco
When I first heard “Get Lucky,” by Daft Punk, in the summer of 2013, I was completely, pleasantly disoriented by it. It was new and shiny, but at the...
Glen Hansard’s Street-Corner Stories
There’s a YouTube video I love of Glen Hansard standing on a rainy street in Dublin, wearing a black jacket and a scarf, cradling a guitar that shows signs...
Wendy Wasserstein’s Prescient Play
Also: Misty Copeland’s Ballet Festival, the cogent poetry of Noname, the films of Otar Iosseliani, and more. Source link
Mitch McConnell: The Musical
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Three Books Sheila Heti Recommends
Sheila Heti—whose new story “Earthly Delights,” about the mysteries of lust, appears in this week’s issue—wrote one of my favorite books ever: “Motherhood.” The narrator is in her thirties,...
The Sunlit Joylessness of Netflix’s “Little House on the Prairie”
One of Laura Ingalls Wilder’s great gifts as a writer was her ability to reconnect, at age sixty-three and beyond, with her childhood sense of wonder and discovery. For...
