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Wired Magazine 

The Future of Vaping After the Fall of Juul

This week, we talk to the hosts of the new podcast Backfired about how the e-cigarette industry got to where it is today and where it can go from here.

The New York Review of Books 

“Ami Police”: A Story

Everything that I needed to know about life, by which I mean suffering, was taught to me in a single afternoon. It was summer, the heart of the rainy season the year I was nine. By the time those few hours had elapsed, I had abandoned childhood, I think, or else it had abandoned me. […]

The New York Review of Books 

The Perils of Pauline (1914)

In an ancient book there was a man who lived on location in the desert. At noon he wrestled with the sun the way Jacob wrestled with a hot human angel all night long. When he got up from the dust, he had a new name that rhymed with his old one. Paul was the […]

The New York Review of Books 

The High Irish Style

John McGahern sought formality and distance in his prose, but his masterful novels were always underpinned by the difficult realities of his own life.

The New York Review of Books 

Reimagining the Ordinary

The French artist Jean Hélion approached painting with a philosophical precision, each style a hypothesis to be investigated and tested.

The New York Review of Books 

A Story of His Own

In James, Percival Everett’s smart, funny, brutal retelling of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Everett takes readers deeper into the capricious yet certain violence of American slavery, giving the characters a life that seems to lift off the page.

The New York Review of Books 

X Days Since the Genocide Began

I feel an obligation not to cryaround my dogelse she gets frightened and shakes. I’m not comparingchildren to dogs like Israel does,but they share emotionality and deep sensitivity and her shakingreminds me of the videos I downloadedonto my phone of Gazan children shaking in fear in hospitalsthat had only weeks left untilUS-made bombs destroyed them. […]

The New York Review of Books 

The Watercolorist

The short fiction of Ángel Bonomini possesses a lightness that sets him apart from contemporaries like Borges and Cortázar.

The New York Review of Books 

A Sacred Scripture of Doubt

Gary Saul Morson is the world’s leading authority on Tolstoy and Dostoevsky. In his latest book, conceived as a stocktaking magnum opus, wonder confronts certainty and triumphs decisively. But is the contest fair? Certainty is represented by the nineteenth-century Russian intelligentsia and its Bolshevik successors, wonder by the questions posed in Russian realist prose. Both […]

The New York Review of Books 

More Than Just Acknowledgments

Tommy Orange’s novels document the shifting balance between the blessings and curses of modern Native life, most of which have been in operation since long before the characters were born.

The New York Review of Books 

Crimes of War in Gaza

Civilians in Gaza are in grave danger from Israel's disregard for international law.

The New York Review of Books 

“Scribbling”: A Story

“She ordered a coffee and a box of twelve doughnuts in the interest of research. The place was really rather good for scribbling. It was awfully nice, actually, not having to worry.”

The New York Review of Books 

Reading Against the Novel

In hundreds of essays and reviews, the nineteenth-century lawyer and judge James Fitzjames Stephen considered the novel’s effects on society at a time when it was becoming the dominant form of entertainment.

The New York Review of Books 

The Kitsch Abyss

Jonathan Glazer’s The Zone of Interest puts all its faith in cinematic technique and forfeits much of the meaning in Martin Amis’s 2014 novel.