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A photo collage of three overlapping images of author Ben Lerner

Hannah Rosefield

Ben Lerner’s Transcription Is a Labyrinth of Allusions

The author’s intricate, unsettling new novel is a book of echoes and parallels.

Rachel Weisz poking her head out of the door of an office in “Vladimir”

What Is TV’s Problem With Professors?

Both Netflix’s Vladimir and HBO’s Rooster play into a politically charged caricature of academia.

Is This the End of the Kennedy Myth?

John F. Kennedy Jr. and Carolyn Bessette dance in Ryan Murphy's Love Story.

Is This the End of the Kennedy Myth?

Books & the Arts

Photo collage featuring Bernie Goetz, the “subway vigilante,” layered with New York City subway imagery and the headline “Fear; Mugging. Shoots 4,” referencing the 1984 shooting on a New York City subway train.

Kim Phillips-Fein

The Enduring Vigilante Credo of Bernie Goetz

How the subway shooter and his defenders honed the politics of fear and grievance

Illustration of a roulette wheel and casino patrons looming over one of their hands holding the Earth, symbolizing a dice and gamblings growing influence spreading from sports into the broader world and news media.

Jacob Bacharach

How Gambling Ate the World

In less than a decade, betting apps swallowed sports. And now they’re doing the same to the news.