2+ hour, 41+ min ago  (510+ words) Introducing Finishing School, in which Mary Norris, The New Yorker's Comma Queen, asks the eternal questions'What's that you're shredding? How much do you pay the cleaning lady? Is it O.K. to have a "Moby-Dick" T-shirt for every day of the week?...

1+ week, 2+ hour ago  (1250+ words) Jay Caspian Kang on Australia's social-media ban for young people under sixteen, on free speech, and on the U.S. movement to restrict kids' access to technology. Teen-agers have First Amendment rights. Social media has become the place where people, especially young…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago  (52+ words) The best movies, books, TV shows, albums, jokes, and podcasts of 2025. Holiday gift guides for kids, coffee nerds, food lovers, nostalgists, tech enthusiasts, and your host. When an Ivy League school turned against a student. How to cycle like a…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (131+ words) In the campus protests over the war in Gaza, language and rhetoric are'as they have always been when it comes to Israel and Palestine'weapons of mass destruction. Among the protesters on college ... How Dartmouth Became the Ivy League's Switzerland "The…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago  (60+ words) I'm taking a break from social media. You'll feel better if you go outside. Reasons our plans tonight should be in my neighborhood. Popular parental advice to teens throughout history. What I imagine strangers think when they see me reading…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago  (1874+ words) What do I know about being a woman?" Nat said. Sometimes I have to ask myself. The thing is, I don't know shit about womanhood." A few days earlier, Nat said, he had been hit hard by the idea that…...

2+ mon, 3+ day ago  (428+ words) In your story "Outcomes," two students at a college in Maine'a freshman who grew up nearby and a senior from New York City'meet and form a connection. How did the idea for the story come to you? The theme of…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago  (402+ words) As I was saying, it's going really great so far. Like, my sister's son has been having all kinds of tantrums'clearly a textbook need to assert control'and it's driving her crazy, but we don't have that problem because our family…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago  (1916+ words) Read an interview with the author for the story behind the story. "How imminent?" the woman said, and sipped her Balkan, a new offering at Amok. "Three or four billion years?" I said. "And who is Charles?" When I informed…...

2+ mon, 2+ week ago  (366+ words) Dealing with 6 pee diapers = 1 regular poop diaper 3 regular poop diapers = 1 at-home blowout 3 at-home blowouts = 1 on-the-go blowout 1 blowout that gets on your clothes = 3 pukes that get on your clothes 1 puke that somehow gets in your mouth = 6 hours of holding a sleeping…...