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Jacob Elordi and Margot Robbie in Emerald Fennell’s “Wuthering Heights”

Emerald Fennell’s Wuthering Heights Is Fan Fiction

The new movie smooths out the novel’s difficulties and plays fast and loose with its romantic elements.

Joel Edgerton as Robert Grainier in the 2025 adaptation of “Train Dreams” on Netflix

Scott Bradfield

Denis Johnson’s Desperate, Poetic Horrors

Ted Geltner’s biography captures the comedy, violence, and gothic gruesomeness of Johnson’s imagination.

Daniel Schlozman

The Left Has a Hyperpolitics Problem

An illustration of couch surfing doom scrolling people on islands with one swimming towards a boat with a disco ball with a crowd of people will blue t shirts and the words VOTE FOR visible on the side of the boat

Daniel Schlozman

The Left Has a Hyperpolitics Problem

Books & the Arts

Illustration of a smartphone displaying Chinese characters and a protest scene, partially blacked out to symbolize censorship in China and Hong Kong.

Lessons from China’s Delicate Dance of Censorship and Expression

The parallels between state censorship in China and the US are increasingly striking.

Images from the central characters from season 2 of The Night Manager juxtaposed in a photo illustration with characters from season one

The New Night Manager Is Missing That Le Carré Magic

The spy show starring Tom Hiddleston is back. But now it feels like Slow Horses.