Good night, Owl. | Arnold Lobel/Courtesy of HarperCollins This story originally appeared in Kids Today, Vox’s newsletter about kids, for everyone. Sign up here for future editions. I’m working on a longer piece, so I wanted to bring you something a little lighter for this week’s newsletter. I’ve been reading Arnold Lobel’s Owl at Home with my…
Next Page is a newsletter written by senior correspondent and book critic Constance Grady. She covers books, publishing, gender, celebrity analysis, and theater. To get new editions in your inbox, subscribe here. Any time I travel to a new place for which there is no Rick Steves guidebook, I feel a little cheated. Steves, with…
Houses in New Albany, Ohio, in 2019. | Maddie McGarvey/Bloomberg via Getty Images Americans don’t move much anymore and Yoni Appelbaum thinks that’s a serious problem. Appelbaum, a historian and deputy executive editor at The Atlantic, is the author of a new book exploring how and why Americans have become less likely to settle in…
On resale sites, the cheapest tickets for Beyoncé’s Cowboy Carter tour cost thousands of dollars. You’re in a crowd of tens of thousands of fellow fans. The band starts playing your favorite song. Everyone screams. You will never, ever forget this moment. Seeing a musician you adore live can be a transcendent experience. But getting…
For the past few months, publishing has been consumed with debate over that ever-divisive topic: blurbs, those breathless little testimonials from other writers that appear on the back of a book’s cover, which hardly anyone likes to write and even fewer people like to ask for. One big author and one major publisher announced within…
Kendrick Lamar performs during the Apple Music Super Bowl LIX Halftime Show at the Caesars Superdome on February 9, 2025, in New Orleans. Since Kendrick Lamar was announced as the Super Bowl LIX halftime show’s headliner last September, music fans have been abuzz with excitement, wondering how the Pulitzer Prize winner would handle the historic…
Kendrick Lamar performs in the Super Bowl halftime show on February 13, 2022, at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, California. | Cooper Neill/Getty Images 2025 might already be Kendrick Lamar’s year. It’s a familiar story for the Pulitzer Prize-winning rapper, who’s received dozens of accolades in his career and dominated pop culture in 2024 thanks to…
TikTok CEO Shou Chew testified alongside X CEO Linda Yaccarino and Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on child safety online on January 31, 2024. | Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call via Getty Images The TikTok ban seems imminent. The Supreme Court on Friday upheld a law that would spell the end of…
When you see a movie or read a book that you can’t get out of your head, there’s nothing better than sharing that experience with other people. But in a fractured media landscape — with countless new releases a year and a significant portion of the entire history of human culture at our fingertips —…
