In an age of madness, ‘Last Week Tonight’ makes me feel sane
The best comedians are more than funny: They have a way of making you feel like their jokes are private...
The show that just beat Hamilton at the box office was built by giving away control
Here is the paradox at the center of Broadway economics: the production that just broke the box-office record for a...
‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’ Review: Gushing With Desire
The opening credits of “Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma” tell a story: A 1980s teen slasher film called...
John Carpenter Found a New Way to Give You Nightmares
Two years ago, an unsettling image came to John Carpenter in his sleep. It consisted of an abandoned cathedral with...
Pirro raked over the coals for doing Trump’s ‘gross, even despicable’ dirty work: analysis
U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro is being called out for her decision to file criminal charges against innocent victims in order...
‘Late Fame’ Review: Lost Poet, Found Again
For a young person longing for the artist’s life, there’s nowhere like Greenwich Village, haunted by the ghosts of painters...
We took my husband’s 75-year-old grandmother to Iceland. We still talk about that trip 9 years later.
The author with her husband's grandmother, Nanny, in Iceland. They're standing on the continental divide in Þingvellir National Park. Courtesy...
‘Ice Cream Man’ Review: A Rocky Road to Hell
A mousetrap to the foot, a skillet to the face, a drill to the ear, a plush rabbit down the...
The Death of Romance
Subscribe here: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube | Overcast | Pocket Casts Reports confirming the death of young love...
Doesn’t Anybody Want to Win This Thing?
Frank Bruni: I suppose it’s only the latest sign of a morally berserk age, but while two ostensibly serious Republican...
