Caliphate Focuses on a Charismatic Detective—but What Case Is She Solving?

Laura Miller

May 23, 2018 9:54 AM

Tom Wolfe Helped Ignite an Explosion in 21st-Century Fiction. It Just Wasn’t His Novels That Did It.

Laura Miller

May 15, 2018 8:59 PM

Michael Pollan on How LSD Isn’t Just for the Young

Laura Miller

May 14, 2018 8:00 AM

Inside a Women’s Prison in Rachel Kushner’s Sorrowful, Magnificent Novel

Laura Miller

May 02, 2018 9:00 AM

How Michelle McNamara’s Researcher Thinks Police May Have Found the Golden State Killer

Laura Miller

April 25, 2018 10:03 PM

This Post About Breathless Online Food Writing Will Give You a Reason to Live

Laura Miller

April 23, 2018 5:55 AM

Has Leslie Jamison’s Life Been Cursed or Charmed? It Depends How You Tell the Story.

Laura Miller

April 03, 2018 10:42 AM

In Real Life, I’m a Middle-Aged Literary Critic. In My Video Gaming Life, I’m Allowed to Be Someone Else.

Laura Miller

March 27, 2018 5:55 AM

Alan Hollinghurst Hates Similes

Laura Miller

March 26, 2018 7:33 AM

There Is No Better English Stylist Alive Than Alan Hollinghurst

Laura Miller

March 21, 2018 9:00 AM

The True-Crime Podcast Atlanta Monster Doesn’t Have a Clue

Laura Miller

March 19, 2018 7:30 AM

Slate Critics Pick the Best Episodes of Children’s Television of All Time

Dana Stevens, Forrest Wickman, Katy Waldman, Willa Paskin, Dan Kois, Aisha Harris, Jack Hamilton, and Laura Miller

Dec 21, 2017 9:30 AM

The 8 Best Audiobooks of 2017

Laura Miller

Dec 18, 2017 11:12 AM

Laura Miller’s 10 Favorite Books of 2017

Laura Miller

Dec 13, 2017 5:50 AM

TNY’s “Cat Person” Story Is Great. Too Bad the Internet Turned It Into a Piping-Hot Thinkpiece.

Laura Miller

Dec 11, 2017 12:44 PM

A New Biography of Laura Ingalls Wilder Untangles the American Myths She Helped Create

Laura Miller

Dec 07, 2017 10:44 AM

150 Years of BS, From Barnum to Trump

Laura Miller

Nov 30, 2017 12:07 PM

Somehow, Jennifer Egan’s Beautiful and Satisfying Manhattan Beach Doesn’t Founder on Clichés

Katy Waldman, Meghan O'Rourke, and Laura Miller

Nov 29, 2017 7:17 AM

2017: The Year in Best-Sellers

Laura Miller

Nov 27, 2017 5:50 AM

Comedians Know to Play to the Room. Al Franken Should’ve Known Better.

Laura Miller

Nov 16, 2017 7:47 PM