admin Realistic Manual for Installing Your New Air-Conditioner
In a parody of an instruction manual, Maeve Dunigan comically explains how to install an air-conditioning unit.
What I Think Will Happen if I Go to a Bar and Order a Whiskey Neat
Maeve Dunigan riffs humorously on the idea of ordering a whiskey neat at a bar and the class and status…
Questions I’ve Texted My Dad, in Ascending Order of How Disappointed He Was to Receive Them
Maeve Dunigan presents a humorous list of questions she’s texted her father, many of which call into question her ability…
This Bouquet of Branches Will Change Everything
Maeve Dunigan takes a humorous look at a bundle of dried willow branches.
Whoopi Goldberg Was and Always Will Be the Whole Show
Her eponymous one-woman show was the seed of her Hollywood stardom, which a new revival now frames as the source…
The Rise of the “Scenario,” a Trendy Way of Forecasting our Dystopian Future
Gideon Lewis-Kraus reviews Annie Jacobsen’s novel “Biological War,” and asks what we miss when we try to predict the future.
LeBron James: An Odyssey
Following the news that LeBron James is signing with the Philadelphia 76ers, Louisa Thomas writes about the basketball star’s N.B.A.…
The Golden Age of the American Idiot
The Critics at Large podcast, featuring Vinson Cunningham, Naomi Fry, and Alexandra Schwartz, talks about a new game show featuring…
Julio Torres’s Sea Wench, Qween Jean at Little Island
Also: Flaco the Owl gets a documentary, Debra Winger and Arliss Howard play “The Gin Game,” Broken Social Scene and…
The White House Press Corps in the Second Trump Era
Katy Waldman writes about Kent Nishimura’s photographs, which capture the backstage labor that allows the Trump show to go on.