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 ...

Sam Kriss on AI’s false starts, doomsday scenarios, and eccentric proponents ...

Drug Cartels Do Not Exist: Narcotrafficking in U.S. and Mexican Culture, by Oswaldo Zavala, translated by William Savinar. Vanderbilt University Press. 206 pages. $34.95. The Dope: The Real History of ...

You’d be the world’s worst journalist.” She is, of course, correct. An interview is not an ideal forum for fiction. But what sort of recording device is the novel? A poor one, at least from the ...

Of the two hundred or so young conservative environmentalists gathered at Tennessee’s Montgomery Bell State Park for the annual summit of the American Conservation Coalition, we were among the lucky ...

Consider Hansel and Gretel, sent away because there was not enough to eat. In times of scarcity, when another mouth to feed means ruin for the poor, two children working together may be a ...

But these assessments reveal little about the true state of the conflict and whether Ukraine’s current trajectory—in territorial, demographic, and diplomatic terms—is sustainable. In fact, the record ...

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When the crow whisperer appeared at the side gate to Adam Florin and Dani Fisher’s house, in Oakland, California, she was dressed head to toe in black, wearing a hoodie, gloves, and a mask. This was a ...

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 ...

Three springs ago, I lost the better part of my mind. I remember it starting with my feet. I woke up one February morning in the South Bronx apartment I’d just moved into with my husband, and my feet ...