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The article discusses the political tensions and the impact of former U.S. President Donald Trump's rhetoric on his supporters ahead of presidential elections in the nation in November 2024. Topics include presidential candidate J.D. Vance's appeal as a public figure, the dynamics of Milwaukee hosting the Republican National Convention, and the ideological divide between the Republican and Democratic parties.

Byline: Lauren Oyler Use Your Hands How Maylis de Kerangal turns work into writing. At the beginning of Maylis de Kerangal's novel 'Painting Time,' which was published in French in [...]

In ''Diary of a Void,'' Emi Yagi unravels the limitless ironies of maternity. DIARY OF A VOID, by Emi Yagi, translated by David Boyd and Lucy North Blame it on [...]

THE STARTUP WIFE By Tahmima Anam EDGE CASE By YZ Chin Start-ups: We know they're bad for politics, culture, workers, restaurants, sex, dating, fashion, San Francisco, Seattle, Berlin, local languages [...]

There are very few opportunities in life to have it both ways; semicolons are the rare instance in which you can; there is absolutely no downside. For several years I [...]

HAVING AND BEING HAD By Eula Biss On the front of my laptop, I have a sticker that reads ''NEVER WORK.'' Unfortunately, it's not big enough to obscure the Apple [...]

UNCANNY VALLEYA MemoirBy Anna Wiener At first, I didn't understand why I was asked to review ''Uncanny Valley,'' Anna Wiener's memoir about working for Bay Area start-ups in the 2010s. [...]

There's a ubiquitous joke on Twitter that goes like this: ''Sir, this is an Arby's.'' That sentence is the punch line, deployed after a setup in which an earnest speaker [...]

Byline: Lauren Oyler Sex Ed How to read Andrea Dworkin. tifIllustration by Golden CosmosFor Dworkin, male domination determined everything, including language itself.68 Apologies to Andrea Dworkin, who did not like [...]

Watching the Netflix show ''Dating Around'' is like sitting next to a Tinder date at a bar: The possibility that something outrageous, sexy or at least interesting will happen holds [...]

WHERE REASONS END By Yiyun LiNear the beginning of Yiyun Li's elliptical new novel, ''Where Reasons End,'' the unnamed narrator describes the difficult task she has set for herself in [...]

Who or what is responsible for sexual assault? Is it the individual who commits it? Or is it the atmospheric conditions that make the individual think he or she can [...]

About a year ago I met up for the first time with a woman I knew only online. Articulate and funny, she is a brilliant writer who studied literature in [...]

LONDON AND THE SOUTH-EAST By David Szalay 352 pp. Graywolf. Paper, $16. Paul Rainey is a loser. The protagonist of David Szalay's first novel, ''London and the South-East,'' Rainey leads [...]

NATASHA LYONNE was reclining in the dark at the Lower Eastside Girls Club--secret home to 'the best planetarium on Avenue D'--as an intergalactic narrator reassured us that we humans are [...]

A friend recently told me about an apartment in Berlin where you can get a geography lesson while using the toilet. The bathroom has a window covered in a frosted [...]

The article explores I n mid-August of this year I traveled from Berlin to the small town of Sonthofen, in the Allgäu region of southern Germany, to research an article about the author W. G. Sebald, who grew up there and is the subject of a recent biography. Sebald's fiction almost always begins with the narrator going on a journey, partly for the purposes of research and partly for reasons.

The article recommends television programs, films, books, music, and podcasts for the month of February 2021. They include the film "Supernova" directed by Harry Macqueen and starring Colin Firth and Stanley Tucci, Keegan-Michael Key's History of Sketch Comedy podcast, and the television program "Jersey Shore: Family Vacation." Also mentioned are the books "Fake Accounts" by Lauren Oyler, "The Kindest Lie," by Nancy Johnson, and the album "Medicine at Midnight" by the Foo Fighters.

The author, whose debut novel "Face Accounts" will be published by Catapult in February 2021, reflects on life after U.S. President Donald Trump. She explores the idea of conversation, both in the sense of an informal exchange of ideas and in the sense of The Conversation or the landscape of perspectives on the issues of the day. She discusses how Trump divided and conquered conversation in both senses of the word.