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Author Chris Kraus is shown alongside various examples of real estate. Her semi-autobiographical character is a real estate agent, which the author also is in real life.

Chris Kraus and the Art of the Landlord

Kraus’s novels revolve around real estate and the thorny questions of who owns, who rents, and how it shapes their art.

The New Republic Staff

The New Republic’s Favorite Stories of 2025

Here are the TNR stories our editors and readers alike loved this year.

Beatrice Loayza

Marty Supreme Is a Love Letter to the Underdog

Timothée Chalamet plays ping pong chancer Marty in Josh Safdie’s “Marty Supreme”

Beatrice Loayza

Marty Supreme Is a Love Letter to the Underdog

Books & the Arts

Seated with Abraham Lincoln—indicating their importance to shaping the Constitution—are senator/abolitionist Charles Sumner, Frederick Douglass, George Washington, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Ponca Chief Standing Bear, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison

Eric Herschthal

Do Liberals Need to Practice Originalism, Too?

A new book argues that careful study of the Constitution’s history could support a liberal agenda.

Rhea Seehorn stars in “Pluribus” on Apple+

In Pluribus, Groupthink Spells the End of Art

Vince Gilligan’s new show imagines a world devoid of any kind of aesthetic experience that isn’t blandly generalizable.