The Great Leap Backward: China’s New Ad Campaign About Parents And Piety

by Abe Sauer

Oz the Great and Powerful Stench of Garbage

Disney just put out this big expensive “spiritual prequel” (who came up with that…

Help Wanted: Seeking Young Hemingway To Cover Retired Americans In Belize

Don’t Trust Anyone To Tell You What Time It Is

Terrifying Mummies Should Watch Their Diet To Avoid Heart Disease Risks

Jeanette Winterson, E. L. Doctorow, Jessica Francis Kane, Sheila Heti

Genetics Is Hard

“An article on Page 66 this weekend about five young men who won the Ruth Lilly Poetry Fellowship describes the group incorrectly. Though no women are included, it is not the case that the X chromosome is not ‘represented in this year’s crop of winners.’ All five men, of course, have an X…

New York City, March 10, 2013

★★★★ Three pigeons banked in unison in the sunlight in the middle distance. Behind them was the Norwegian…

The “Parental Anecdote” Rule of Columnizing

Even speaking as someone with 126 emails — oh Lord, 128 since I started writing this — marked as “important and unread” that I really do intend to answer as soon as possible, which is proving to be something of a struggle, and also sort of humiliating…