F lash forward to the present day, as the art of cinema is being systematically devalued, sidelined, demeaned, and reduced to its lowest common denominator, “content.” As recently as fifteen years ago ...

The only thing everyone can agree on about why Donald Trump does what he does is that his reasons are not obvious. There are innumerable proposals on offer for an intellectual framework that ...

An artwork from the series Wall of Lamentations by Santiago Montoya that was on view in March at Halcyon Gallery, in London.

From “Who Needs the Democrats?,” which appeared in the July 1970 issue of Harper’s Magazine. The complete article—along with the magazine’s entire 175-year ...

From The Mirror of Simple Souls, which was published in May by Winter Editions. The freedom of love it astounds me When we walk by the furniture stores With their waterbeds as big as houses On the ...

From Issue 44 of the Los Angeles Review of Books Quarterly, which was published this spring. Most days are bad days. That’s just the way it is right now. I used to say I wanted to live as long as ...

Photographs by Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen, from her book Writing in the Sand, which was published in February by Dewi Lewis Publishing. Courtesy the artist and Dewi Lewis Publishing ...

Techno-thrillers are the rose-colored glasses through which the national-security state sees itself. Ronald Reagan so admired Tom Clancy’s novel The Hunt for Red October (“my kind of yarn”) that he ...

From the Archive Timeless stories from our 175-year archive handpicked to speak to the news of the day.

From an interview with the journalist Randall Sullivan that was conducted by Finn Cohen and published in the April issue of The Sun. randall sullivan: When I was young, I didn’t have any religious ...

From an anonymous message about Rinaldo Nazzaro, the founder of The Base, a white-supremacist group, that circulated on Telegram in April. Unlike what most people and the media think, The Base wasn’t ...

From New Story of the Stone, which was published in June by Columbia University Press. The book, published in Chinese beginning in 1905, is considered one of China’s first works of science fiction. It ...