Some Favorites

An examination of what archives can — and can’t — do in the digital age, by Nanna Bonde Thylstrup for The New York Times

Former U.S. Representative Peter Smith on the decline of moderate Republicans, for The New York Times

Julia Yost on why downtown Manhattan scenesters are so enamored by Catholicism, for The New York Times

A personal essay on the death of a hamster and a disabled son by Craig Morgan Teicher, for The Yale Review

Mairead Small Staid’s long, lyrical essay on writing, teaching, and memory, for The Yale Review (named a notable essay for 2021 in the Best American Essays)

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The New York Times
“Laws Need to Catch Up to Artificial Intelligence’s Unique Risks,” Garrison Lovely, September 29, 2024
“How Should We Mourn the End of Summer?” Cody Delistraty, September 1, 2024
“The Ancient Roots of of Trump’s Attacks on Harris,” Honor Cargill-Martin, August 31, 2024
“It’s Not You: Dating Apps Are Getting Worse,” Magdalene J. Taylor, March 16, 2024
“We Need to Read the Forgotten Geniuses, Not Rescue Them,” Apoorva Tadepalli, February 28, 2024
“When Artists Can’t Go Home, All That’s Left Is Their Art,” Celeste Marcus, February 25, 2024
“The Polar Explorer, and Scammer, Who Should Be an American Hero,” Allegra Rosenberg, December 25, 2023
“Algorithms Are Making Kids Desperately Unhappy,” Chris Murphy, July 18, 2023
“The World’s Digital Memory Is at Risk,” Nanna Bonde Thylstrup, June 21, 2023
“Colleges Should Be More Than Just Vocational Schools,” Bret C. Devereaux, April 2, 2023
“Have More Sex, Please!” Magdalene J. Taylor, February 13, 2023
“Moderate Republicans No Longer Have a Home, and It Started With My Defeat,” Peter Smith, September 22, 2022
“Please Don’t Make a Tolkien Cinematic Universe,” Michael D.C. Drout, September 1, 2022
“New York’s Hottest Club Is the Catholic Church,” Julia Yost, August 9, 2022
“You Want to Buy Meat? In This Economy?” Annaliese Griffin, June 2, 2022

The New Republic
“Elite Conservatives Have Taken An Awfully Weird Turn,” Graham Gallagher, November 25, 2022

The Yale Review
“Communalism in the Veld,” Glen Retief, Spring 2022 Issue
“Paul Monette’s AIDS Poetry,” Ellis Jaewon Yeo, December 1, 2021
“The Screen is a Mirror,” S. Brook Corfman, November 22, 2021
“Battle Scene,” Ian Spencer Bell, October 18, 2021
“A Small Death in the Family,” Craig Morgan Teicher, October 12, 2021
“Suicide in Fiction, Reconsidered,” Morgan Thomas, September 7, 2021
“Reimagining the Battle of Algiers,” Kate Liebman, Fall 2021 Issue
“What Space is For,” Mairead Small Staid, Summer 2021 Issue
“Olga Tokarczuk’s Radical Tenderness,” Marek Makowski, February 16, 2021
“Against Abdicating Power to Big Tech,” Claire Bond Potter, February 1, 2021
“Act Your Age,” Benjamin Naddaff-Hafrey, December 21, 2020