Thirteen years ago when they told me I had cancer my first thought was of the day my grandfather died in the 40s. With the family grouped around the doctor, my aunt asked him what ‘carcinoma’ meant in ...

Oliver Pötzsch, trans. from the German by Lisa Reinhardt. Amazon Crossing, $14.95 trade paper (568p) ISBN 978-1-5420-0998-0 This colorful historical pageant from Pötzsch (Sword of Power) purports to ...

I thought a lot about the conversation, and it rung true. Often it isn’t only the person themselves we’ve grown sick of when we decide to leave a marriage, love affair, or friendship. It’s what we’ve ...

You can save this article by registering for free here. Or sign-in if you have an account. Canada is perilously close to the greatest electoral disaster in its history. A Liberal victory would commit ...

Chicken.pics is a site from the mind of Erika Hall, cofounder of the design consultancy Mule. In a new subsection on the site, called Clickens, users are presented with two paintings of chickens and ...

The story of a secret relationship between two Premier League teammates explores power and homophobia The Italian manager of the unnamed Premier League club in Alex Allison’s second novel is a ...

Parents in a school district in Ohio are celebrating the arrival of Satan this holiday season in the form of the Hellion Academy of Independent Learning (Hail), an alternative to Christian release ...

Just in time for the holidays, the Church Lady – Dana Carvey’s iconic character from Saturday Night Live – reemerged from her crypt earlier this month to declare 2024 “the most Satanic year in history ...

John Cleese, the famous British comedian, is confounded. Why can’t Trump voters see how awful the former president is? This sentiment is everywhere. People are confounded that Donald Trump might win ...

Shaham and the IPO will also be performing Bedrich Smetana Vlatava (Moldau), Dvorák’s Slavonic dances, and Richard Strauss’s Four Symphonic Interludes from his 1924 comic Opera Intermezzo.

Given the current existential anxiety over artificial intelligence, this zippy black comedy about online entrepreneurs could hardly be more timely. Andrew Stein’s play sees successful tech bro Nick ...