• Humor

    Drinking

    Kingsley Amis’s Instructions for Coping with Hangovers, Both Physical and Metaphysical

    By Kingsley Amis  January 18, 2022
    What to Watch

    Lights, Camera… Corn: 15 Quintessentially Midwestern Movies to Watch After Fargo

    By Charlie Berens  November 19, 2021
    The Hub

    10 new definitions of autofiction.

    By Walker Caplan  October 21, 2021
    Memory

    How Do You Find a Book When You Can’t Remember the Title or the Author?

    By Marina Luz  October 21, 2021
    Teaching Through a Pandemic

    The Last-Resort Move That Made My Students Smile

    By Frances Starn  October 20, 2021
    Drinking

    A Scotsman: Why I Love Getting Drunk on Cocktails in America

    By Daniel Sloss  October 13, 2021
    Relationships

    The Myth of True Love Hurts Us All—Especially Women

    By Jen Winston  October 8, 2021
    Marriage

    How to Be Married, in 16 Simple and Completely F*cking Unrealistic Steps

    By Kimberly Harrington  October 7, 2021
    Advice

    The Theory of (Artistic) Relativity, Illustrated

    By Michelle Rial  October 1, 2021
    Rejection

    How to Deal with Rejection (and Get Revenge) Like Edgar Allan Poe

    By Catherine Baab-Muguira  September 30, 2021
    The Hub

    Read Kay Ryan’s hilarious, lacerating first-person reporting on AWP.

    By Walker Caplan  September 21, 2021
    The Hub

    Ten campus novels as op-eds about the dangers of wokeness.

    By Jessie Gaynor  August 31, 2021
    The Hub

    Breaking news: Men still don’t know how to write women.

    By Vanessa Willoughby  August 24, 2021
    The Hub

    12 new opinions on Lolita that no one’s invented yet.

    By Walker Caplan  August 18, 2021
    Literary History

    On the Lost “Lenny Bruce of Athens”

    By Mark Haskell Smith  August 18, 2021
    Language

    On the Art of Literary Name-Calling: The Best and Most Baroque Insults Are Micro-Poems for the Ages

    By Jason Guriel  August 13, 2021
    Comedy

    Why Is Jerry Seinfeld One of the Most Successful Stand-Up Comedians of All Time?

    By David Steinberg  July 14, 2021
    Humor

    To Write a Comic Novel, I Had to Shed the Weight of Expectation (and Adopt a New Name)

    By Tahmima Anam  July 13, 2021
    Mental health

    How Crafting Got Me Through the Worst 700 Days of My Life

    By Kelly Williams Brown  July 9, 2021
    The Hub

    On Maurice Sendak’s birthday, take a look at some of his rare drawings.

    By Walker Caplan  June 10, 2021
    Reading Women

    Jenny Lawson on (Dark) Humor as a Conduit to Compassion

    By Reading Women  June 9, 2021
    The Hub

    That inspiring Eric Carle quote making the rounds yesterday was actually an April Fool’s joke.

    By Walker Caplan  May 28, 2021
    Gay Culture

    The Humor—and Grief—of the Modern-Day “Guncle”

    By Steven Rowley  May 25, 2021
    Reading Lists

    In Praise of the Graceless Literary Exit: A Reading List

    By KT Sparks  April 19, 2021
    The Maris Review

    Amy Solomon and Aparna Nancherla on the Intersection of Comedy and Anxiety

    By The Maris Review  April 8, 2021
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