When my teenage daughter enrolled in an acting course at the National Theater of Great Britain during her recent school ...
I n 2019, my friend Brian Cantwell Smith published a book about the power and limitations of artificial intelligence. We ...
In my experience, every kind of writing requires some kind of self-soothing Jedi mind trick, and, when it comes to essay ...
Movies like Touch of Evil and A New Hope have the best and most iconic opening scenes, effectively establishing their entire ...
Shadow Ticket,” Pynchon’s first book in a dozen years, unfolds its conspiracies in Depression-era Milwaukee and beyond, but ...
Galston defines this awful thing in his fantastic new book, “Anger, Fear, Domination: Dark Passions and the Power of ...
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When I reflect on the chain of events that have led to where I am now, I realise that it’s hard for me not to recognise the value of my own input in determining ...
I n 1970, a New York publishing company put out a debut novel by an editor and former teacher from Ohio. The press, then ...
A memoir from the author of “Man Gone Down” probes the conundrums of family, trauma, mental illness, literary acclaim—and ...
Brian Taylor has helped hundreds of students get into the school of their dreams, including at the eight Ivy Leagues, and he ...
Trump is a master of this dark art, but I wouldn’t say my Trump-supporting friends have darker personalities than my ...
O’Brien Press has finally published a non-fiction version of he lives of 10 women overshadowed by their famous husbands ...