At the American Society of Magazine Editors’ National Magazine Awards ceremony on May 19, 2026, judges presented Harper’s ...

It comes from Victor Hugo’s Les Misérables, in which you’ll find a lovely long passage about the sewers of Paris: The sewer ...

The campus, built on behalf of the software giant Oracle and OpenAI, is part of a massive AI-infrastructure project known as ...

Nat Segnit on theme-park propaganda, the international appetite for jingoism, and a hypothetical Winston Churchill musical ...

It is a matter of necessity or a choice freely made; a burdensome condition or a vintage-Polaroid fantasy: to live in a van. During the pandemic, the writer Kristin Dombek was one of many people who ...

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 ...

In Norway, a fourteen-year-old boy, in his third bus theft in seven months, stole and drove a bus from Oslo to Kristiansand; in Atlanta, more than a dozen Waymo SUVs turned onto the same dead-end ...

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 ...

Much of the conversation regarding AI to date has concerned its potential for unleashing cosmic dangers or its nebulous promises of global salvation. In practice, however, plenty of the young people ...

Let’s start with a wicked little paragraph. Guy Debord chose to kill himself the old-fashioned way; Jean-Luc Godard—“the dumbest Swiss Maoist of them all,” in the words of the amusing ...

From The Death of Trotsky: The True Story of the Plot to Kill Stalin’s Greatest Enemy, out in February from Dutton. Leon Trotsky’s whitewashed study, which abutted his simply furnished bedroom, was ...

Brontez Purnell is nothing if not prolific. The author of seven books, most recently Ten Bridges I’ve Burnt: A Memoir in Verse, he’s also a musician, filmmaker, dancer, and choreographer. Purnell ...