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Doonesbury artist Garry Trudeau at the 1996 Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen, Colorado

Scott Bradfield

The Great American Adventure of Reading Doonesbury

G.B. Trudeau often skewered politicians at their stupidest. But his primary subject has always been the range and variety of everyday life.

An illustration of Edgar Allen Poe in a grey color palette depicted as a reflection in an oval mirror with a red crow overlaid in part, on his eye

How Edgar Allan Poe Mined His Own Misery

In Emily Ogden’s new book, Poe is not a concocter of hokey ghost stories. He is an excavator of repressed emotion.

Malcolm Ferguson

Jonathan Majors Is Back. Yikes.

Malcolm Ferguson

Jonathan Majors Is Back. Yikes.

Books & the Arts

an illustration of a TV set with actress Amy Poehler floating out of it with empty chairs and interviewer desk, representing the transition from television to video podcast interviews featuring 'Good Hang' hosted by Amy Poehler

Video Podcasts Are the New Late Night

Interview shows like Amy Poehler’s Good Hang are taking the place of traditional TV.

Author Sigrid Nunez photographed at Minetta Triangle Park, NYC

The Liberated Women of Sigrid Nunez’s New York

The best stories in It Will Come Back to You could only take place in a big city, where women escape social conventions.