Becca Rothfeld

A Sadistic Master Storyteller

The many varieties of misery in the dazzling short stories of Machado de Assis

J.G. Ballard’s Eerily Accurate Dystopias

His novels “Crash” and “Super-Cannes” depict a world of tech-enhanced luxury and crushing malaise.

Thank You Taylor Swift for Making It Cool for Women to Act Crazy

A Single Sound Brought Together Berlin After the Wall Fell

A Holocaust Victim's Forgotten Masterpiece Is Finally Available in America

Gone Girl's Feminist Update of the Old-Fashioned Femme Fatale

The New Fairy Tale Is Trying to Escape Its Past

The Japanese Literature Trend That's Half Cupcake, Half Decapitation

How Ravers Became the New Flower Children

EDM is the feel-good music of a new generation