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The chapel is decorated with flowers. The roses represent love. The irises represent growth and prosperity. The carnations represent death.…
Wedding Dress Codes, Decoded
Ali Ruth offers a humorous glossary for various dress-code guidelines for wedding season, including Silicon Valley Semiformal, Vineyard Polo Douchewear,…
A Sibling’s Wedding Toast
Eddie Small jokes about the platitudes and generic storytelling that siblings of brides and grooms use when delivering wedding toasts.
The Hidden Costs of Weddings
Simon Webster jokes about the incredibly expensive costs associated with having a wedding ceremony.
A Few Quick Thoughts from Bridezilla!
Megan Amram parodies the sometimes outlandish requests of a bride-to-be.
What Gets Kept
Joyce Johnson writes about her affair with Jack Kerouac, whom she met on a blind date in New York before…
How Raghu Rai Captured an India in Transition
The photographer, who died last month, at the age of eighty-three, spent his life chronicling the highs and lows of…
The Verve and Confrontation of Lisa Yuskavage’s Naked Ladies
The women pop up again and again, in canvas after canvas, like a random intrusive thought that refuses to go…
What’s Missing from Belle Burden’s “Strangers”
One of the biggest books of the year weaves a tale of financial peril, but court documents complicate the narrative.…
Is the Working Class Finally Turning on Trump?
A retired Pennsylvania steelworker who vote for Hillary Clinton in 2016 cast ballots for Donald Trump in 2020 and 2024.…