Bowen Yang Is Making Saturday Night Live a Little Bit Weirder
“The bighearted comic opens up about bringing a fresh perspective to television.”
The Wing Is a Women’s Utopia. Unless You Work There.
Surprise: women’s empowerment harnessed to American-style capitalism delivers more inequality, and an Instagram wall can’t fix it.
Orderly, dour, cowed: how my beloved Italy is changed by coronavirus
Holed up with his family in their Parma flat, Tobias Jones tells of the eerie atmosphere in a country usually known for sociability, chaos and fun.
The Man Who Won’t Let the World Forget the Firebombing of Tokyo
Part of the paper’s “Beyond the World War II We Know” series.
The Jell-O Rule
The eulogy for novelist Charles Portis, delivered at Portis’ funeral by his friend and colleague Ernie Dumas.
How to Write Well
Rules and rigidity are anathema to writing style and the kind of exciting, surprising language that make literature so rewarding. But writing rules also allow for clear communication and logical arguments. So where is the middle ground?
The Trump Presidency Is Over
It’s hard to be hopeful right now, but one Republican believes that the coronavirus crisis has already revealed Trump as a person incapable of leadership, and that the American people will demand a person who is.
Coronavirus Pandemic Cripples Seattle Restaurant Industry, With More Than 50 Closures in 2 Weeks
This is life in one center of the US outbreak.
Alone Against the Virus
Decades of neoliberal austerity will make it harder to fight the COVID-19 pandemic. Now, more than ever, we must rebuild our social safety net and forge a New Deal for public health.
A Week at the Epicenter of America’s Coronavirus Crisis
James Ross Gardner on the past week of life and the first deaths in Seattle — the first city to feel the effects of Covid-19 in America. “Every avoidance felt like an act of heroism. You told yourself you were saving lives, and you were probably right.”
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