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As Greg Samuels awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a limited liability company. He was lying on his ... → Read More
Why must writers insert the word “whopping” before every number? → Read More
There are many bad words in English, but only one worst word. That word is utilize. Although I would never defend it on aural grounds, the way it rolls off the tongue — or rather does not roll off the tongue — is not its chief problem. What's truly offensive about utilize is that it is useless. Utilize means "to make use of," of course. I wonder what else means that. Oh, right: Use.… → Read More
When the weather’s bad it’s easy to justify doing next to nothing all weekend long. If it’s cold out and especially if it’s raining, who really wants to go to a bar or to a museum? Sure bars and… → Read More
Nicotine, the author’s third novel, is a humorous meditation on how people balance their public and private selves. → Read More
by Juliet Lapidos A friend who works in the movie business was ranting about the popularity of television and waxing nostalgic about the seventies, when h… → Read More
We don’t binge on television because we like it, we like television because we can binge on it. → Read More
by Juliet LapidosPhoto: Jason RogersA friend who works in the movie business was ranting about the popularity of television and waxing nostalgic about the seventies, when his preferred medium was culturally ascendant. When I asked him why he thought ... → Read More
Women with children are paid less, on average, relative to men than women without children. → Read More
Unlike many in the Obama administration, Dr. Vivek Murthy accepts at least some of the science on marijuana. → Read More
Neither digital-world natives nor victims of the Great Recession, the children of the early ’80s deserve a different label. → Read More
Female stars were paid less than their male counterparts. → Read More
Under the F.D.A.’s new policy, any man who has had sex with another man in the last year may not donate. → Read More
In an interview on “Meet the Press” on Sunday, former vice president Dick Cheney basically taunted ambitious lawyers at the Hague to come after him. The host of the show, Chuck Todd, read details from the Senate report on “enhanced interrogation” and asked Mr. Cheney if he thought they amounted to torture. Rectal feeding? Keeping a man in a coffin-sized box? Handcuffing another man’s wrists to… → Read More
The governor doesn’t like a bi-partisan bill that would ban gestation crates for pregnant sows. → Read More
You suffer when you quit a story midway through—and so does literature. → Read More
You suffer when you quit a story midway through—and so does literature. → Read More
Despite agitations to the contrary, this year’s Halloween will likely be marked, as in Halloweens past, by women dressing up in “sexy” costumes. But when did this trend get its start? In 2010, Juliet Lapidos tried to find out. The article is reprinted below: Should the Explainer dress as a... → Read More
The complex literary stylings of Ben Lerner are as stunning as ever. → Read More
Among Times commenters there’s a virtual consensus: The federal ban makes no sense. → Read More