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In the real world, solving murders is the domain of detectives and police officers—y’know, people who have actual training in that sort of thing. But in...

The world is currently grappling with the effects of COVID-19 and to say that it hasn’t been easy would be an understatement. As a result of...

My parents think I’m morbid. My friends think I’m a masochist. But the truth of the matter is that I’m just neurotic. And the best way...

Critical Linking is a daily roundup of the most interesting bookish links from around the web sponsored by “Because I’m a planner, I took about a...

I’m sitting on my balcony at home now, watching TV and eating cheese and olives. It was difficult to get the TV out here, but if...

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Since his heyday in the mid-nineteenth century, P.T. Barnum’s name has been shorthand for ebullient humbuggery, maximalist entertainment, inexhaustible self-promotion, rags-to-riches industriousness—for fun. Yet the images...

It is now, as I begin to write this, the first weekend of April. Three weeks ago, right before Spring Break, we received recommendations to stay...

The times we live in are bleak. In an increasingly horrifying world, some turn to horror—a genre that understands their fears—to find solace. Others need something...

The latest edition in a running series of dispatches by New York Review writers documenting the coronavirus outbreak with updates from around the world, including Verlyn...