When you’ve finished the story, delete the sentence. The story did not have to be in the form of a letter, and “you” could be ...

Shia LaBeouf and I were born six days apart in June 1986. I see him as the representative of my nanodemographic—as if my week’s cohort of white American males emerged from a brief huddle to announce, ...

On a damp, gray afternoon in April, I took my daughter with me to vote in the New York Democratic primary. After a long Tuesday, she was keen to get… ...

On the state of publishing and the failed merger of Simon & Schuster and Penguin Random House ...

Is civil commitment rehabilitating sex offenders—or punishing them?

Is civil commitment rehabilitating sex offenders—or punishing them?

Is civil commitment rehabilitating sex offenders—or punishing them?

The following New Year’s resolutions were written by then fifteen-year-old Daniel Robbins in January 2002 as an assignment for his high school typing class. Robbins, a resident of Great Falls,… ...

A suicide bomber kills 35 people at a bank in Jalalabad, Hillary Clinton doesn't tip at Chipotle, and a chiropractor admits to bartering treatments for sex ...

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A version of this column originally ran in Le Devoir on November 4, 2024. Translated from the French by Elettra Pauletto. There may have been a genius somewhere who accurately predicted the results of ...

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