And, you know, the nice thing about President Trump is he knows that.” Vought is now in charge of the budget machine, eager ...

From Pause the Document, which will be published this month by Nightboat Books.

From The Dream Hotel, which will be published this month by Pantheon. Morning light silvers the glass-brick windows of the Safe-X library. A sign taped to the wall above the return shelf says quiet.

Liberal internationalism died in the ruins of Gaza and Beirut. Donald Trump’s return to office has only put a tin plate on the coffin. The doctrine lost all legitimacy through its dependence on ...

From “Brains in Washington,” which appeared in the March 1936 issue of Harper’s Magazine. The complete article—along with the magazine’s entire 174-year ...

From the introduction to a reissue of Martin Amis’s novel London Fields, which was published in November by Vintage, in Britain. The curse of Englishness is something whose magnitude we are still ...

The Great Basin is a vast interior watershed cut off from the sea and spanning some two hundred thousand square miles of the American West. Settlers traveling on emigrant trails largely raced through ...