A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings.

A secret history of shutting up.

A reprieve from the city’s chaos.

Thousands of people in Nigeria have been held for ransom by bandit groups. One professor escaped his captors—only to be abducted again.

“how starkly clear you hear them gnawing / at the wood of lawn chairs near the awning.”

The “Master of None” actor and half of the duo Tim and Eric turned his post-divorce hobby—collecting Dr. Seussian trees and shrubs—into a hipster business, with Martha Stewart and Kelly Wearstler as clients.

Beijing is competing with the U.S. for tech supremacy. Who wins will have huge political implications.

Fireworks by Grucci has been in the pyrotechnics business for six generations.

Dan J. Sullivan and Dan S. Sullivan are both vying for a Senate seat in Alaska. Who will take the Last Frontier?

At the Old News Newsstand, yesterday’s headlines are today’s hot scoops—discarded Timeses, out-of-vogue Vogues, cool zines, even vintage smut.

The documentarian returns to the Grand Canyon for “The Bend in the River,” the third film in his unofficial series on friendship, nature, and the passage of time.

The lawyer who showed an outer-borough striver how to ignore the rules, avoid a paper trail, and make up a good story for the media.

Jacqueline Harpman wrote her best-known works in the nineteen-nineties, but her fiction’s elegiac loneliness seems to anticipate our own solitary, screen-bound era.

The Fed chair’s biggest challenge is demonstrating his independence from Donald Trump.

The White House is distorting intelligence assessments instead of working to protect the midterm elections.

The Michigan Senate primary has turned into a referendum on a word that has never had a fixed meaning.

“Daylight Come,” “Scavenging Beauty,” “Dooneen,” and “Queen Mab.”

Married Man Still Able to Drink at Collegiate Level; Sloppy Eater Dog’s New Best Friend; and more.

“Oh, / thing, poor thing, little thing, thing thinging, thing is / a beautiful mess.”