Women’s volleyball in 2025 is more interesting than before. Sports followers can see demonstrations that drop the jaw, nails that challenge gravity, and team work that changes the match into an unforgettable event. This year, there are a number of women who have risen above others. Here, we will introduce you to five of them … [Read more…]
A deadlock in chess is one of those rules that feels unfair to the point of saving someone’s game. It occurs when the moving side is not checkedbut that’s it no legal action with any part. According to official rules, the match immediately ended in a draw. In one sentence: what is meant by stalemate … [Read more…]
Roque Dalton in exile in Havana, Cuba, 1967. Casa de las Américas, via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain. For our Poetry Making series, we ask poets and translators to dissect the poems they publish in our pages. Natasha Wimmer’s translation of Roque Dalton’s poem “I Wasn’t Always This Ugly” appears in our new Fall issue, no. … [Read more…]
AVP League continues the 2025 season with week 6 scheduled for July 19 and 20 in New York City. Central Park will be eight matches for two days because four teams based in the city compete in front of the local crowd. With some playoffs still in quarrels, the weekend results are expected to have … [Read more…]
With the highest parity in the NFL, some unlikely clubs may have the best chance of getting a ring As the NFL season approaches, predictions are being made about who could win the Super Bowl in February, and there’s still plenty of time to see if those views pan out. The majority of those views … [Read more…]
Antique friendly robot. Photograph by Thomas Quine, via Wikimedia Commons. Licensed under CC BY 2.0. Read the first installment of Nancy Lemann’s series on talking to robots here. “Would you say that you have a personality?” I asked him. What am I really trying to find out—this guy is a robot. I just want to … [Read more…]
Andy Warhol with Archie, his pet Dachsund. Photograph by Jack Mitchell, via Wikimedia Commons. Licensed under CC BY-SA 1.0. In The Philosophy, the artist Andy Warhol tells us relatively little about how he became Warhol. He shares parts of his story in this series of aperçus about death, love, taxes, and beauty, among other issues—thus … [Read more…]
Watercolor by Spencer Reece. Dear Louise, My garden thrums with bird calls. Canada goose and American robin, mourning dove, northern cardinal. Ruby-throated hummingbirds! A hawk’s claws clench the golden cross on the steeple; the hawk kills a bird every week, eviscerating bodies on the tops of telephone poles like a serial killer. Birds making melody, … [Read more…]
Photo courtesy of the author. I remember my young man last month had forgotten who he was. Even though he was too busy with his thoughts and feelings as well as his high self-awareness of his existence, the young man, at some point during KPop Demon Hunter sing-along event, slipping away from himself. It’s an … [Read more…]
From Detail “Winter,“ portfolio that appeared in the Winter 1976 issue Paris Review. Yan Lianke’s story “Plants, Rocks, Dirt, and Sky,” translated by Jeremy Tiang, appears in the magazine’s Fall 2025 issue Paris Review. When an author is forbidden to publish his books in his own country but cannot live anywhere else, he finds himself … [Read more…]