Free speech is forever a matter of perspective. Unless you are an absolutist—and very few true absolutists exist—everyone draws their red lines somewhere, whether it’s at racist epithets or yelling...
NEW YORK (AP) — This year’s winners of the Gotham Book Prize celebrate New York City as experienced on foot, bus and train. Ian Frazier, author of “Paradise Bronx: The...
Meghan Markle “berated” one of her wedding caterers so badly that Queen Elizabeth II had to intervene, royals biographer Katie Nicholl claimed. “On one occasion in the run-up to the...
Sarah Jessica Parker can add another skill to her long resume — speed reader. The “And Just Like That…” star is currently reading up to two books a day as...
In March 2024, I wrote a column about President Biden’s State of the Union speech with a confident headline that made perfect sense to me at the time: “Chill out,...
Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson’s superbly reported “Original Sin: President Biden’s Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again” reads like a Shakespearean drama on steroids. During his...
One day Bruce Handy was watching a teen movie — it could have been something new or maybe a vintage John Hughes, he doesn’t remember — when he was struck...
When a computer bulldozes through the barriers humans build to keep it in check, the consequences are usually pretty grave—at least in sci-fi media. We can be hunted through time,...
Halfway through King Lear, storm clouds gather, and Shakespeare’s protagonist rages, “You see me here, you gods, a poor old man, / As full of grief as age; wretched in...
Casey Johnston once spent her life trying her very hardest to disappear, counting calories and logging miles of cardio so she could watch herself shrink. Now, she’s a powerlifting enthusiast...
