Magazine
The return of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Early into Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s new novel, narrator Chiamaka, or “Chia,” muses on the two women who matter most to her. There is her best friend, “organized,…
March 12, 2025
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An antibiography biography of Leonardo da Vinci
Everything you need to know about Leonardo da Vinci is contained in the work he did in the 1480s and 1490s for Ludovico Sforza — Ludovico il…
Magazine
An oral history of crimefighting that works
In the late 1980s and early 1990s, things were about as bad as they could get in New York City. Roughly 2,000 residents were dying in homicides…
Entertainment
How the Oscars lost its mojo
In the era of peak Oscars, the movies commemorated were, at worst, honorably decent and, at best, the sort of sumptuously mounted, inoffensively impressive super-spectacles that the…
Magazine
Why Canada won
There’s a civilization north of the American border. Even among those who know of it, this “Canada” tends to be enigmatic. It is a place bigger by…
Entertainment
Gene Hackman, 1930-2025
Any movie star worth his salt should have a distinctive manner of speaking. Jimmy Stewart charmed with his stammer, Orson Welles impressed with his baritone, and Gene…
Columnists
Trumpworld goes global
Will Trumpworld become Trump’s world? The domestic trifecta is attained, and the battle for the bureaucracy is joined. Donaldus Maximus turns to the far provinces of the…