“Just Kidding,” by Rita Dove
“A priest, a rabbi, and a poet walk into a bar / and we’re laughing already, calculating their clashing philosophies.”
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“A priest, a rabbi, and a poet walk into a bar / and we’re laughing already, calculating their clashing philosophies.”
The author discusses her story “Lub Dub Lub Dub Lub Dub.”
“It is raining, raining, raining. / The sky is falling, falling, falling.”
At only twenty-one, the tennis phenom is likely already the best-ever player from Southeast Asia. Now she is seeking her first Grand Slam title at this summer’s U.S. Open
Why do we love trash and hate slop? Neil Breen’s so-bad-they’re-great movies elucidate the difference
Flash floods, triggered by a glacial collapse in the Himalayas, have killed at least five hundred people in a nation that has contributed little to climate change but is disproportionately affected by it
Frazier, the author of the New Yorker humor essay that inspired the new, buzzy film, talks with Burch, the Oscar-nominated screenwriter who reimagined it as a satire of legal thrillers
The biographer’s new book, “American Scoundrel,” details Cohn’s infamous tactics during the McCarthy purges, a sex-trafficking allegation, and his profound influence on Trump
Even while refusing to admit legal fault, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram has accepted, for the first time, that much of its business model is unacceptable for children
It was the end of the world, and a number of us had gathered in a large, abandoned house
A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings
The FX series, which is returning for a second season, won’t restore the genre to its normcore roots—but, happily, it has no interest in doing so