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Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story For the cover of the February 26, 2024, issue, the artist Marcellus Hall set out to celebrate the pleasures of the season—from skating and skiing to cozying up with a book.…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story “I’m embarrassed about the fluid situation,” the comedian Jenny Slate began, apologizing for her cold. We were talking on Zoom, and she was some three thousand miles away, in Los Angeles,…

State of the Union: Revisiting Ernest Hemingway’s collection of short stories titled In Our Time. Growing up, I didn’t have enough of an appreciation for short stories. I thought the thicker the book, the more knowledge within. Even more than…

A former professional wrestler is modeling good neighborship and the supremacy of the local in Knox County, Tennessee. Credit: Gage Skidmore The Bible says Cain killed his brother Abel and then founded the first city. Today, WWE Hall of Fame…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story The residents of the apartment complex are respectable. There are doctors, lawyers, and a surplus of those drably enigmatic persons known as “young professionals.” The building itself, the Starliner Tower, on…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Rachel SymeStaff writer You’re reading the Goings On newsletter, a guide to what we’re watching, listening to, and doing this week. Sign up to receive it in your in-box. So far,…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Don’t trust the credits. Just as producer credits are sometimes handed out like bonuses, screenwriter credits often fail to reflect work that directors do on scripts they shoot. But one of…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story The first zine that I ever read was called Snotrag, and its author was a straight-edge hardcore fan, bike enthusiast, and occasional raver who lived in Vermont. I was none of…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story When Layla and Tarek meet up on a street corner one night in Brooklyn, they greet each other with the jerky unease of people who don’t know whether or not to…

It doesn’t take a conspiracy theorist to notice recurring cliques of prominent media personalities. Credit: Melissa Bender One night in 2019, around the time she wrote an article in New York Magazine accusing President Donald Trump of rape, the writer…