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Though discourse in 2021 tried to deepen the distinctions, it’s clear that young people today are forged from the same digital monoculture.

[Justin Charity reflects on the similarities between millennials and Gen Z.]

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Babitz was Los Angeles’s defiant booster, while Didion gave fodder to naysayers’ suspicion—but the two late writers’ bodies of work beg to be taken in tandem.

[Alison Herman reflects on the careers of Joan Didion and Eve Babitz, who recently died within days of each other.]

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For years, Harbaugh’s Wolverines fell short of lofty preseason expectations. In 2021, they did the opposite—and are chasing a national championship as a result. What changed? And what does it tell us about the state of college football?

The Wachowski sisters tackle the most gigantic questions known to humanity—reality, identity, knowledge, causality, memory—with a spirit of play. They understand that while from one angle nothing matters more than these questions, from another angle they’re curiously insubstantial. They mean everything and nothing at all.