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Columns

A Portrait of the Artist as an Artist Portraying the Artist

Adrian Nathan West

April 23, 2026

This offers itself as revelation.

Vigilante Injustice

Charlotte Rosen

April 15, 2026

Two books revisit the Bernie Goetz shooting.

What’s in a Name?

Nico Taylor

April 14, 2026

“Ain’t that so? You never never know.”

They Came to See Us Suffer

Charlie Tyson

April 09, 2026

In the influencer novel, the work is the pain.

Frothing Mad

Max Kiefel

April 07, 2026

Radicalized by the betrayal of a meritocratic promise.

La Vida Loca 

Martin Dolan

March 20, 2026

Even as the stories gets dark, Jaime Hernandez’s linework maintains a tangible lust for life.

Troubled Salt Waters

Kyle Paoletta

March 18, 2026

Can we build a usable politics of restoration?

A Healthy, Vigorous National Life

Andrew Schenker

March 06, 2026

A sobering object lesson for today’s reader.

The Darkness from the Darkness

William Giraldi

March 05, 2026

Suffering maneuvers you to the midpoint between belief and heresy.

It’s His Turn

Alex Bronzini-Vender

February 25, 2026

“Dippity-do, Dippity-do! Gavin, Gavin, we love you!”

Everything Is at Stake

Apoorva Tadepalli

February 04, 2026

Amit Chaudhuri’s “poetics of unfinishedness.”

Maximally Perverse Obscurantism

Paul Grimstad

January 29, 2026

There is something basically broken about “Schattenfroh.”