Here’s a poem about patience, about self-control, about the need to conserve your energy and constrain your desire. Fittingly enough, it’s a proper old-school sonnet, orderly...
A planet-size eyeball blinks in celestial light before the hero in Ultros awakens on a spaceship amid alien shrubbery the color of an acid-dipped rainbow. Traipsing...
Rebecca Yarros’s ‘Onyx Storm’ Is the Fastest-Selling Adult Novel in 20 Years The book, the third in a series, has sold 2.7 million copies in its...
1992 ‘Mississippi Masala’ Mira Nair’s film about star-crossed lovers in the American South is rich with themes. Centering on the daughter of an Indian family from...
Every now and again some starry-eyed optimist tries to craft an all-time best-of romance canon, and the gods laugh and make popcorn for the ensuing discourse...
One of the things I love about New York, a sense gleaned over the years, is that it’s an organism. I grew up in Massachusetts in...
1985 “That’s the ticket” Uttered by Jon Lovitz’s pathological liar character, Tommy Flanagan, when he’d hit upon a particularly egregious whopper, this line was also Lovitz’s...
Writing in character is “one of my favorite tools of empathy,” Eilish said, and was often easier than writing unadorned about her own life, although the...
Poems aren’t pictures, but sometimes they try to make us see, and to make us feel in ways we might associate with acts of seeing. Some...
“Impression, Sunrise,” 1872 Luncheon of the Boating Party Lunch at the Restaurant Fournaise Reveal Manet painted “Still Life with Melon and Peaches” (left) around 1866. Monet,...
