Andrew Kahn
Slate
New York, NY, United States
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The Literary Sensation Everyone Loves to Hate Gets a Grim, Revealing New Chapter
Two hours into into this four-hour gospel of suffering, people started to walk out. What were they expecting? → Read More
Coronavirus Diaries: I Went to a Sex Party on Zoom
Photo illustration by Slate. Photos by Getty Images Plus. Coronavirus Diaries is a series of dispatches exploring how the coronavirus is affecting people’s lives. For the latest public health information, please refer to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s website. For Slate’s coronavirus coverage, click here. This diary is written by Andrew Kahn, a writer in New York. It frankly… → Read More
Coronavirus Diaries: The Guys Are Wild on Grindr Right Now
Photo illustration by Slate. Photos by Leon Neal/Getty Images. Coronavirus Diaries is a series of dispatches exploring how the coronavirus is affecting people’s lives. For the latest public health information, please refer to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s website. For Slate’s coronavirus coverage, click here. This diary is written by Andrew Kahn, a writer in New York. One of… → Read More
Hannah Gadsby’s Nanette Is a Funeral for Stand-up Comedy
It’s the end of comedy as we know it, and Gadsby’s show feels … anxious and profoundly sad. → Read More
What Twitter’s Nosiest Brits and Yanks Are Saying About the Royal Wedding
Pop the bubbly! → Read More
Here’s What Twitter’s Smartest Liberals and Conservatives Are Saying About the State of the Union
Check out the instant spin room. → Read More
Chicago West Is a Bad Name for a Kardashian Child and I’ll Tell You Why
It's not because I bear any ill will toward the city of Chicago. → Read More
The Last Jedi Isn’t for the Fans—It’s About the Fans
When do we need a legend? And how long will it last for? → Read More
How We Made “The Year in Push Alerts”
Miniaturizing the experience of the news since Inauguration Day → Read More
Two Slate Writers Who Have Not Seen Mother! Attempt to Describe the Plot of Mother!
Mother? → Read More
Quiz: How Well Do You Know the Voices of Kermit?
Beloved Muppet mainstay Kermit the Frog has outlasted a number of performers. When Muppets creator and voice of Kermit Jim Henson died unexpectedly in ... → Read More
Guess Whether These Headlines Came From Breitbart or 1920s KKK Newspapers
Like many of his colleagues, historian Peter Shulman has cautioned against the excessive use of Nazi comparisons in assessing our present-day political ... → Read More
The Clichés of Michiko Kakutani’s Book Reviews Are the Clichés of Contemporary Books
Michiko Kakutani announced late last month that she was leaving the New York Times. In her 34 years as a book reviewer for the paper, pointing out her ... → Read More
Trump Hasn’t Killed Comedy
You and I have grown up during a period in which comedy became strangely bound up with truth and virtue. Trump has cut the knot. → Read More
Liberals Have Turned Trump Into a Gay Villain Because Our Worst Villains Must Be Gay
Now that Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin have met in the flesh, our obsession with imagining the president as a gay man has reached a climax. Frank Bru ... → Read More
Here’s What Twitter’s Smartest Liberals and Conservatives Are Saying About the Comey Hearing
James B. Comey, the former director of the F.B.I. whom Donald Trump fired last month, is testifying on Thursday before the Senate Intelligence Committee. How are commentators processing his comments? Below are pundits’ and politicos’ live tweets, drawn from a list of top accounts curated by Slate. Those who lean left are on the left; those who lean right are on the right. Behold the instant spin. → Read More
This Interactive Calculator Will Tell You if You Have Sex More or Less Often Than Other People
Tautologically speaking, you probably have it a normal amount. → Read More
Here’s What Twitter’s Smartest Liberals and Conservatives Are Saying About the Comey Firing
Tuesday evening, Donald Trump abruptly fired James B. Comey, the director of the FBI. Comey’s agency had been conducting an investigation into Russian ... → Read More
Why Are People on Twitter Trying to #FireColbert?
Why are we here? In his Monday night monologue, Stephen Colbert directed a homophobic insult at Donald Trump: “The only thing your mouth is good for is ... → Read More
Trump’s First 100 Days, in His Own Words
Between his inauguration as president of the United States and 2:15 p.m. Eastern on April 26, Donald Trump has tweeted 379 times from his personal Twitter account. Here are the tweets:* → Read More